Ge-rid

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-rid
meat, food (?). which may mean the food laid up by the ants in the ant-hill :-- Ball seó lustfulnes and swetiies þæs lichaman weorðeþ tó wyrma geride dulcedo illius vermes (Job 24, 20 where the A. V. has, ' the worm shall feed sweetly on him '), Gr. D. 323, 3. ge-rid

Related words: bed-gerid,

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