Ceáp-sceamul

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ceáp-sceamul

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -sceamel, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 ceáp-sceamul

m. [scamel a bench, seat] A toll-booth, custom-house, treasury; mercatorium scabellum, telonium = HEBREW , gazophylacium = GREEK :-- He geseah Leui, æt ceápsceamule sittende vidit Levi, sedentem ad telonium, Lk. Bos. 5, 27. Ðás word he spæc æt ceápsceamele hæc verba locutus est in gazophylacio, Jn. Bos. 8, 20. ceap-sceamul

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛖᚪᛈ-ᛋᚳᛠᛗᚢᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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