Ge-lóman

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-lóman
Substitute: ge-lóma, an; m. I. a tool, an implement, utensil :-- Gelóma utensile, Wrt. Voc. ii. 124, 24. Næs nǽnig wén þæs gelóman (a wood-bill) . . . Se hálga man ágeaf þám Gotan þone gelóman, and cwæð: 'Lóca nú l hér is þín gelóma,' Gr. D. 114, 1-18. Hé hét weorpan íserne gelóman in þæs mynstres wyrtgeard, þá iserngelóman gewunelice naman wé hátaþ spadan and spitelas, 201, 19. II. in a collective sense, furniture :-- Gelóma suppellex (cuncta culinae suppellex, Aid. 66, 15), Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 17.

Related words: íren-, ísern-gelóma; cf. andlóman. ge-loman

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