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Source: Bosworth/Toller, page b0777, entry 2
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Port, es ; m. The name attributed to one of the Saxon invaders of Britain, apparently an inference from a place-name :-- Hér cuom Port on Bretene ... on ðære stówe ðe is gecueden Portesmúþa, Chr. 501 ; Erl. 14, 12.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page b0824, entry 21
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sceáp-wæsoe, an ; f. A place for washing sheep, the word remains as a place-name in Sheepwash, in Worcestershire :--Of ðam stáne on sceápwæscan ; andlang sceápwæscan, Cod. Dip. v. 48, 6. Andlang sceápwæscan tó sceápwæscan forda, 174, 11. Tó ðære sceápwæscan, 298, 4. Juxta fluvium qui dicitur Stúr, ad uadum nomine Scépesuuasce, i. 155, 23.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page b1026, entry 3
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Twi-fyrd, -ford Twyford, a place-name occurring more than once in England and meaning double ford :-- On ðære stówe ðe is cweden Æt Twyfyrde in loco qui dicitur Ad Twifyrde, quod significat, ad duplex vadum, Bd. 4, 28; S. 606, 5. Æt Twyfyrde, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 114, 33. Tó Twyfyrde, iii. 203, 22. Of Twufyrde . . . æft on Twyfyrde, v. 147, 28-148, 22. On Twyfyrd; of Twyfyrde, iii. 444, 7. In Latin charters :-- His nuncupantur uocabulis, Twyfyrde . . . , 153, 24. Apud Twyfird, v. 130, 31. The form Twyford also occurs :-- Of Twyforde andlang Auene ðære eá swá ðæt mynstre stondeþ ofer Alne streám, vi. 220, 5. Cf. Circum fluuium Alne in loco qui dicitur Aet Tuiford, i. 29, 6. In loco qui Tuiforda appellatur, 74, 31.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page b1240, entry 7
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wisc a marsh (?) :-- Concede terram in loco qui dicitur Fearnleág (Farleigh, in Kent, by the Medway) & an myclan wisce vi. æceres mde (and in the big marsh vi. acres of meadow (?)), Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 128, 33. Cf. Wiscleágeat, v. 179, 34. [Cf. (?) O. H. Ger. Wisicha . (place-name).]


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page b1254, entry 21
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wíþig-leáh; gen. -leás; m. A meadow where willows grow (a place-name):--Ðis synt ða landgemro tó Wíðileá . . . Ðis is ðæra feówer hýda landbóc æt Wíðigleá, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 457, 13-23.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0045, entry 32
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apulder. For n.? substitute f., and add apuldre (-er ?), es; m. :-- Apuldur, malus, Txts. 76, 636. Apuldor, Wrt. Voc. ii. 54, 41. Swétre apuldre rind, Lch. i. 358, 14. Tó ðre háran apoldre, C. D. v. 148, 29. On þone longan apuldre, of þám apuldre, C. D. B. iii. 586, 8. The word occurs not infrequently in charters, v. Cht. Crw. p. 52, and remains in the place-name Appledore. [Icel.. apaldr; m.] v. worþ-apulder; apuldre.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0093, entry 6
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bisceop-hám, es; m. An episcopal estate :-- Ic gean þes landes æt Hedhám ... intó Paulusbyrig æt Lundænæ tó bisceophámæ, Cht. Th. 520, 14. Tó biscopháme, 523, 23. On lcon bisceopháme lcon men freót þe wíteþeów wre, Cht. Crw. 23, 28. Sæ bisceop him dó hira fullan fóstær of his bisceophámum episcopus eos de suis propriis episcopalibus uillis pleniter pascat, C. D. v. 219, 4. [Cf. the place-name Bispham.]


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0119, entry 21
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ceáp-stede, es; m. A market-place, in the place-name Chépstede, C. D. vi. 269. [O. Sax. kóp-stedi market-place (of the temple, v. Mt. 21, 12).]


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0282, entry 13
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ganra. Add :-- Anser [vel ganra (added in another hand)] hwt gs, Wülck. Gl. 284, 13. Gandra (ganra, v. l.) anser, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 43, 14. Gif wf ete hanan flsc oe ganran, Lch. iii. 144, 24. in a place-name :-- Andlang weges upp on gandran dne, C. D. v. 166, 6.


Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0284, entry 10
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geác. Add :-- Gaec, gc cuculus, Txts. 55, 618. Geác geumatrix, Wrt. Voc. ii. 109, 64; geumatrex, 40, 69. Geáces sre :-- Gces (geácæs, gcæs) sre accitalium, Txts. 37, 58. Geácas sre, Wrt. Voc. ii. 4, 32. Ices (ices) sræ calciculium, Txts. 47, 380. in a place-name :-- T Geáces leá, C. D. v. 342, 24. Geákes leá et er Geákes leá, iii. 101, 15. Æt Iáces leá, 125, 9. [The tenth riddle is on the cuckoo.]


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