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cricc
cricc
Old English
Alternative forms
Noun
criċċ f (nominative plural criċċe)
- crutch, staff
- Gird din and cricc ðín me fréfredon
- Thy rod and Thy staff comfort me.
- c. 1000 Ælfric's Metrical Lives of the Saints
- Hé mid twám criccum creáp him tó Wynceastre
- He crawled with two crutches to Winchester.
- Hé mid twám criccum creáp him tó Wynceastre
- Gird din and cricc ðín me fréfredon
- a bishop's crook
- c. 800 Épinal Glossary (ref. Sweet's Oldest English Texts, p72)
- Quoted in The Shrine: a Collection of Occasional Papers on Dry Subjects, Thomas Oswald Cockayne (1864-1870) p.70, l.14:
- Se biscop slóh mid his cricce on ðá eorðan
- The bishop struck with his crook on the earth.
- Se biscop slóh mid his cricce on ðá eorðan
Descendants
References
- cricc in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
- crycc in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary