Geap, geáp, geápes
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - geap, geáp, geápes
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- geap, geáp, geápes
- Take all together under geáp, and add: I. curved, bent :-- Geáp curfa, Wrt. Voc. ii. 21, 46. Geápum pandis, 116, 23 : curvis, 21, 16. (1)of a line :-- Geápum l gebīgedum pando, curvo (arcu), Hpt. Gl. 405, 69. Geáp, Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 70. Geápe, 69, 4. On geápum galgan rīdan, Vy. 33. In dā geápan linde, C. D. iii. 375, 5. On geápan gāran westeweardne, vaulted (of the roof of a house) :-- Ræced hlifade geáp and goldfāh the hall towered up with roof vaulted and gay with gold, B. 1800: Ruin. 11. Strūdende fȳr steápes and geápes forswealh eall every roof was burnt, Gen. 2556. Under geápne hrōf, B. 836. Þās hofu dreórgad and þǣs teáfor geápu (these vaulted and red-tiled roofs ?), tigelum sceáded hrōst-beáges rōf, Ruin. 31. (b) curved (of a boat), v. sǣ-geáp. (c) rounded (of a mountain) :-- Munt is hine ymbūtan, geáp gylden weal (or under (1) ?), Sal. 256. (d) with convex surface :-- Gim sceal on hringe standan steáp and geáp, Gn. C. 23. II. crafty, clever, astute :-- Geáp callidus, Wrt. Voc. i. 85, 37. Sē þe gehealt þreágincga geáp (astutus) hē wyrd, Scint. 114, l. Gēp (astutus) ealle dēd mid geþeahte, 199, 10. Mann gēp (uersuttis) bedīglad ingehȳd, 94, 17. Ān fox þe is geápest ealra deóra, Shrn. 14, 19. Sē þincd nū wærrest and geápest þe ōderne mæig beswīcan, 17, 23. [Ne beo ȝe noht ȝepe (prudentes) toȝene ȝiu seluen. Ðe man is ȝiep toȝenes him seluen ꝥ is smegh oder man to bicharren . . . Estote prudentes sicut serpentes . . . beod giepe alse þe neddre, O. E. Hml. ii. 195, 4-16.] geapes,geap