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Old English
Etymology
Equivalent to ġeond- + leċċan.
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ġeondleċċan
- (transitive, accusative) to water, irrigate
1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:Gif hē hine of flōdum Godes wordes gindlecþ.- If he irrigates him(self) with floods of God's word...
- (transitive, accusative) to wet or moisten thoroughly
1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:Geondleccende muntas of heora uferum dǣlum.- Thoroughly wetting mountains from their upper parts.
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