Níd-nǽm

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - níd-nǽm

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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níd-nǽm
f. A taking by force, rapine :-- Nǽnigum biscope álýfed sí ówiht of heora ǽhtum þurh nýdnǽme him on geniman (violenter abstrahere), Bd. 4. 5 ; S. 572. 36. Gif hwá binnan ðám gemǽrum úres ríces reáflác and niédnǽme dó, L. In. 10; Th. i. 108, 9. [Cf. O. H. Ger. nót-numft violentia, rapina.]

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