mundgripe

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Old English

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Etymology

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mund (hand) +‎ gripe (grip)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mundgripe m

  1. (poetic) grasp, hand-grip
    • c. 700, Beowulf, 379-381:
      [...] þyder tō þance, þæt hē þrtiges
      manna mægencræft on his mundgripe
      heaþorōf hæbbe. Hine hālig God [...]
      Francis Barton Gummere translation:
      [...] thither for thanks, —he has thirty men’s
      heft of grasp in the gripe of his hand,
      the bold-in-battle. Blesséd God
      [...]

Declension

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