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Old English

NOUN
  1. English prior to about 1100

How To Use Old English In A Sentence

  • The 37-year-old Englishman is only the fourth player to get there without having won a major. Lee Westwood Ranked No. 1, Jumps Tiger Woods
  • He was judged against a flat-coated retriever, a giant schnauzer, an Old English sheepdog, a wire fox terrier, a saluki hound and Pekingese toy dog.
  • Each of the seven-bone USDA prime standing ribs is aged for a minimum of 28 days before being roasted in the old English way, on top of a bed of course rock salt. Jay Weston: Lawry's the Prime Rib -- Donating, Doing, Delicious!
  • My favorite is the adjective taken from the Old English word for “gore,” dreor. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
  • It was just one of those lovely old English gardens.
  • And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
  • “Lych” was the Old English word for corpse — hence the roofed-over lych gate outside most churches, for the temporary resting of the bier (and its bearers) on the way into the graveyard. The Moor
  • The claimed derivation is from an obsolete word (in Latin) "feo" = "to bring forth", where the eo became the œ ligature (perhaps because the EO combination really was a single vowel in old english, including runes!) which then became separate letters O and E because of typesetting issues. Pharyngula
  • ALMOST 100 birds were on show when Holcombe Old English Game Fowl Club held its annual gamecock show in Ramsbottom.
  • This version is the one most familiar to students of Old English literature, since it appeared in most Old English grammars and readers.
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