Cleófa

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - cleófa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

cleófa
l. cleofa, dele 'That . . ., chasm,' and add:--Hé hæfde ǽnne lícðrowere belocen on ánum clyfan . . . Ðá eóde Basilius tó ðám clyfan, ac se preóst nolde undón þá duru mid cǽge, Hml. S. 3, 480-4. Sum déma hét hí belúcan on stǽnenum cleofan, Shrn. 103, 4. Cleofan absidan, Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 51. Gefere þæne mannan on swíðe fæstne cleofan and wearmne, Lch. ii. 280, 11. [N. E. D. cleve. Icel. klefi, klifi a closet.] v. ealu-, heáh-, máðum-cleofa. cleofa
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