Hwer-hwette

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hwer-hwette

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hwer-hwette
f. A cucumber :-- Hwerhwette cucumer, Ælfc. Gl. 40; Som. 63, 99; Wrt. Voc. 30, 47. Hwerwette, L. M. 1, 23; Lchdm. ii. 66, 9. Hwerhwettan gesihþ on swefnum untrumnysse getácnaþ if a man sees in dreams a cucumber it betokens illness, Lchdm. iii. 200, 16. hwer-hwette
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