Ganot

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ganot

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ganet, es;

GANOT
m. A gannet, sea-fowl, water-fowl, fen-duck; ăvis mărina, fŭlix, fŭlĭca :-- Ganot fŭlix, Wrt. Voc. 62, 7 : 280, 13. Ðá wearþ adrǽfed deórmód hæleþ, Óslác of earde, ofer ýþa gewealc, ofer ganotes bæþ then the brave man, Oslac, was driven away from the land, over the billows' roll, over the gannet's bath [the sea], Chr. 975; Erl. 126, 20; Edg. 46 : Beo. Th. 3727; B. 1861. Ác fereþ gelóme ofer ganotes bæþ a ship [lit. oak] often saileth over the gannet's bath [the sea], Runic pm. 25; Kmbl. 344, 19; Hick. Thes. i. 135. 49. [Plat. gante : Dut. gent, m. a male goose, gander : O. H. Ger. ganazo, ganzo, m. anetus.] ganot
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