Cǽg-bora
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - cǽg-bora
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- cǽg-bora
- Add: one who has charge of the keys of a jail, jailor :-- Cǽgbora clavicularius. Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 45: ii. 17, 11. Scs Heremus wæs cǽgbora in Róme, Shrn. 121, 23. [Cf. N. E. D. key-bearer.] Cf. cǽg-hirde. cæg-bora