Hell-geþwing

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hell-geþwing

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hell-geþwing
n. The restraint, constraint of hell :-- Se hellsceaða wiste ðæt hie sceoldon hellgeþwin[g] niéde onfón the devil knew that they must needs receive the restraint of hell, Cd. 33; Th. 43, 20; Gen. 696. [O. Sax. helli-geþwing.] hell-geþwing
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