Ge-hȳdan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-hȳdan

to fasten with a cable made of hide (?cf. þæt gafol bid . . . on þǣm sciprāpum þe beód of hwæles hȳde geworht, Ors. l, l; S. 18, 18) :-- Wēnad wǣglīdende þæt hȳ on eálond sum eágum wlīten, and bonne gehȳdad heáhstefn scipu tō þām unlonde (the whale) oncyrrāpum, . . . and þonne in þæt ēglond ūp gewītad (cf. an ealond he (the sailors) wenen it (the whale) is, . . . sipes on festen and alle up gangen, Misc. 17, 533), Wal. 13. ge-hydan