Ge-bind

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-bind

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-bind
Add: I. constipation, costiveness :-- Gebind tenacitas ventris, tentigo, Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 60. Wið stede and for gebinde . . . wið innoþa wræce and gif gebind men byþ. Lch. i. 338, 3-9. II. as a measure of quantity, a bind ( bind (5) : 'A Bind of eels . . . consisted of ten sticks, and every stick of twenty-five eels') :-- Man gelǽste ǽlce geáre . . . þreó gebind ǽles, Cht. Th. 328, 33. ge-bind

Related words: N. E. D.

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