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Old English
Etymology
here + ġeatwa
Pronunciation
Noun
hereġeatwa f pl
- war-gear
- heriot
2006 June 1 [1970], Richard Hamer, editor, A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse, Croydon: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 52:eregeatu means literally ‘war-gear’ but it had a technical sense referring to the dues, originally consisting of war equipment, to be repaid to a lord on his tenant’s death.