Þeów-weorc
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - þeów-weorc
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- þeów-weorc
- n. Servile work, work to be done by a slave :-- Gif hwá freót forwyrce ... sý hé ðæs þeówweorces wyrðe ðe ðǽr tó gebyrige if any on forfeit his freedom ... let him have such servile work assigned him as pertains thereto, L. Ed. 9; Th. i. 164, 12. Gif esne ofer dryhtnes hǽse þeówweorc wyrce an Sunnanǽfen (last passage), L. Wih. 9; Th. i. 38, 18. þeow-weorc