Spora

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - spora

According to the Old English Dictionary:

, spura, an;

spora
m. A spur :-- Spora calcar, Txts. 47, 361: 110, 1164. Spura, Wrt. Voc. ii. 17, 3, 63 : i. 84, 3 : 288, 22 : Hpt. Gl. 505, 70: Ælfc. Gr. 9, 16; Zup. 42, 10. Calcaria spuran dicta, quia in calce hominis ligantur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 44. Spurum calcaribus, 17, 62. Hé heów ðæt hors mid ðam spuran (cf. Icel. höggva hest sporum), Ælfc. T. Grn. 18, 22. .ii. spuran on .iii. pundan, Chart. Th. 503, 8. [O. H. Ger. sporo: Icel. spori.]

Related words: hún-, táh-spora, -spura ; hand-spor(a ?) ; sporu. spora

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