Ge-sceot

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-scot, es;

ge-sceot
n. I. the collection of weapons necessary for shooting, a weapon that is shot or hurled, an arrow, dart :-- Nim ðín gesceot ðínne cocur and ðínne bogan take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, Gen, 27, 3. Ðú of heofenum dóm mid gescote sendest de cælo judicium jaculatum est, Ps. Th. 75, 6. Ðǽr forwearþ micel Alexandres heres for geǽtredum gescotum there much of Alexander's army perished by poisoned arrows, Ors. 3, 9; Bos. 68, 38. [O. H. Ger. gaseoz jaculum: Ger. geschoss.] II. Ger. geschoss story of a house]">and Vig. Icel. Dict. skot">an advance [of money], a contribution, tribute [cf. Ger. vorschiessen]. III. a part of a building shut off from the rest [v. Cl. and Vig. Icel. Dict. skot, III ; and cf. Ger. geschoss story of a house] :-- Gesceot bæftan ðæm heáhweofode propitiatorium, vel sanctum sanctorum, vel secretarium, vel pastoforum, Ælfc. Gl. 109; Som. 79, 26; Wrt. Voc. 59, 1. v. selegesceot. ge-sceot

Related words: corn-, Róm-gesceot.

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