Grutt
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - grutt
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- grutt
- m. or n. I. an abyss, a gulf, whirlpool. (1) literal :-- Déopnysse, grutte, sweliende uoragine (inferni), An. Ox. 4340. Grut edwindan barathrum uoraginis (Charybdis), 4, 9. Grut swelgendes, 7, 41. (2) figurative :-- Swylce betwyx stánhricgum gruttes and stæfleahtres swelgend quasi inter Scyllam solocismi et barbarismi baratrum, An. Ox. 5466. Edwindan, grutte in uoraginem (gastrimargiae), 701. II. a rock ? :-- Stánrocca stáncyslas and sinewealte scylua, grutta (or ?? scylua grutta of the rocks of the depths; cf. (?) first passage under I. 2: if this explanation be correct the quotation belongs to I. 1) popelstánas of sandigum stranda stáncyslum scopulorum glareas et rotundos scrupearum lapillulos de arenosis litorum sablonibus, An. Ox. 1814.