Eorþ-scræf

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - eorþ-scræf

According to the Old English Dictionary:

eorþ-scræf
Add: I. a cave :-- Dauid wæs gehýd on ánum eorðscræfe (spelunca) . . . Ðá fór Saul forð bí ðæm scræfe, Past. 197, 12. II. a cave for burial, tomb, grave :-- Ne þearf þæs nán man wénan ꝥ his líchama mæge þá synbyrþenna on eorþscrafe gebétan, Bl. H. 109, 31. Ealle erðware úp árísað of ðǽm ealdum eorðscræfum, Nap. 20. eorþ-scræf
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