Cǽg-loca

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - cǽg-loca

According to the Old English Dictionary:

cǽg-loca
Dele: 'The action . . . key-locking.' The cǽglocan in the passage are the repositories which the wife could lock up with keys (supra); if the stolen property were not put into these, the keys of which were in her keeping, she was to be held guiltless. cæg-loca

Related words: cǽg (1)

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