Hilde

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hilde

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hilde
f. A slope, declivity :-- Helde, burhsteall clivium (cliuium, ascensus singularis uiae, Ld. Gl. H. s.v. glebum) i. discensum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 72. On Owunes hyldan ufewyrde, C. D. N. E. D. hield. O. H. Ger. halda; f. clivus. Cf. Icel. hallr; m. a slope.] v. heald. -hilde,hilde

Related words: 293, 25. Oð ðæs clifes norðhyldan . . . on æccan dene norðhyldan, iii. 418, 25, 33. [v.

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