Wríd

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wríd

According to the Old English Dictionary:

(cf. ' A

wríd
ride of hazle or such like wood, is a whole plump of spriggs or frith growing out of the same root, ' E. D. S. Pub. Old Farming Words, no. III. Here is an heelful thing, a wonder wride (rimes with abyde), Pall. 51, 207), es; m. A shoot, stalk, plant, bush :-- Uurýd culmus, Txts. 52, 252. Genim æscþrote ǽnne wríd, Lchdm. i. 216, 11. Genim ðysse wyrte wríd, 224, 1. Bedelf ǽnne wríd cileþenigin moran, iii. 38, 9. and next word. wrid

Related words: hæsel-wríd; ge-wrid,

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