Wæter-gesceaft

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wæter-gesceaft

f. The watery element :-- Swá ꝥ wæter wæs standende and beleác þá duru þǽre cyrican, efne swylce seó wætergesceaft (wæteres gesceaft) wǽre onwænded in fæstes wáges staðolfæstnesse sic stans aqua ecclesiae januam clausit, ac si illud elementum liquidum in soliditatem parietis fuisset mutatum, Gr. D. 220, 17. wæter-gesceaft