Heópe

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - heópe

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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heópe
f. A hip, seed-vessel of the dog-rose; also the plant on which the hip grows[?] :-- Heópe butunus [i.e. button, Fr. bouton, knob], Ælfc. Gl. 40; Som. 63, 90; Wrt. Voc. 30, 36. Genim brér ðe hiópan on weaxaþ take briar on which hips grow, L. M. 1, 38; Lchdm. ii. 96, 15. [Chauc. hepe.]

Related words: heópa. heope

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