Wraþra
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wraþra
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- wraþra
- e; f. A prop, stay, support :-- Wraþe fulcimentum, i. adminiculum, Wülck. Gl. 245, 27. (l) literal :-- Se biscop hine onhylde tó ánre ðærá studa ðe útan tó ðære cyrican geseted wæs ðære cyricean tó wraþe (pro munimine), Bd. 3, 17; S. 543, 40. Ðam wáge tó wræbe in munimentum parielis, S. 544, 24. Tó wealles wraðe. Ps. Th. 117, 21. Wraðe cimento, Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 51. Wraðum columpnis, 21, 70. (a) figurative, support, assistance :-- Wérigra wraþu (St. Guthlac), Exon. Th. 183, 34; Gú. 1337. Wísdðmes wraðu, and witena frófur, Runic pm. Kmbl. 340, 7 ; Rún. 4. Gyfu gumena byð . . . wraðu and weorð-scype, 340. 25! Rún. 7. Ðǽr bið á gearu wraðu wannhálum wíta gehwylces, Eten. Kmbl. 2057; El. 1030. Wéne ic mé wraðe tó ðé ego in te sperabo, Ps. Th. 55, 3. Wyrta ðú geworhtest tó wraðe manna producetis herbam servituti hominum, 103, 13. Se mé wraþe healdeþ, Exon. Th. 117, 7; Gú. 220. Ðǽr hí wraðe métaþ, 215, 3; Ph. 247. Ðæt hý wraþe sécen, frófre tó feóndum, 362, 12; Wal. 35. Ðǽr dú wraðe findest, Elen. Kmbl. 168; El. 84. Him Freá ælmihtig fultum tiócle, wíf áweahte, and ða wraðe sealde leófum rince, Cd. Th. 11, 13; Gen. 174. Mæg secgan se ðe wyle sóð sprecan, ðæt se mondryhten, . . . ðonne hé gesealde helm and byrnan healsittendum, . . . gúðgewǽdu, wraðe (armour that ought to have proved of assistance to him; or wraðe; adv. ?) forwurpe, Beo. Th. 5736; B. 2872.