sceaft

sceaft
m (-es/-as) a smooth, round, straight stick or pole, a shaft; 1. generally, (1) the shaft of a spear; (2) a spear; 2. the shaft of an arrow; 3. a staff, pole, shaft; 3a. something shaped like a shaft, a taper; 4. the word occurs in the passage that defines the distance to which the king's 'grith' extended, but the origin of the phrase, of which it forms a part, is not evident: þus feor sceal béon þæs cinges griþ fram his burhgeate þǽr hé is sittende on féower healfe his, þæt is, 3 míla, and 3 furlang, and 3 æcera brǽde, and 9 fóta, and 9 scæfta munda, and 9 berecorna; as a name of a measure of about six inches the phrase continued to exist;
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\sceaft 1 f (-e/-a), m (-es/-as), n (-es/-u) 1. creation, origin, construction, existence; 2. a creation, what is created, a creature, created being; 3. ge\sceaft dispensation, destiny, fate; 4. ge\sceaft condition, nature

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