On-timber

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - on-timber

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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on-timber
n. I. material :-- Ðæt óðer antimber materia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 57, 42. Ðæt antimber ðe hé of gesceóp gesceafta, Hexam. 4; Norm. 6, 22. Nis hit nán wúndor ðeáh mon swilc ontimber gewirce, Shrn. 164, 1. II. metaph. reason, occasion; materia :-- Swilce him gerýmed sý and antimber geseald, ðæt hé God bereáfige, Lchdm, iii. 444, 1. For ðisum antimbre ic gedyrstlǽhte ðæt ic ðás gesetnysse undergann, Homl. Th. i. 2, 26.

Related words: and-timber. on-timber

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