Ele-greófa

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ele-greófa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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ele-greófa
m. An oil-pot (fibrous material saturated with oil (?) (cf. O. H. Ger. grinbo v. pfanna frixorium, cremium vel siccamina lignorum: Ger. griebe fibrous remains of lard, &c. after being fried):--Elegreóuena naptarum (the passage is: incendia naptarum fomite succensa: cf. heordena, tyrwena naptarum, An. Ox. 1649. The glosser may have thought of the fire as fed by oil from cans, or by tow soaked in oil), An. Ox. 7, 87: 8, 99. ele-greofa

Related words: greófa); or

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