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gesithmen

gesithmen is the plural of gesithman.

Meaning of gesithman

Noun

gesithman (plural gesithmen)

  1. A gesith.
    • If any one received into his family a ceorl who fled from justice, he was obliged to pay his own were, but if he refused he was compellable to pay his own were, and then his gesithman was bound to pay his were also. Here the stranger, by being admitted into the family of another, became the...1818, Samuel Heywood, A Dissertation upon the Distinctions in Society, and Ranks of the People, under the Anglo-Saxon Governments, London: […] W. Clarke and Sons, page 251

Questions about gesithmen

What is gesithmen the plural of?
Gesithmen is the plural of gesithman.

Words near gesithmen in the dictionary

  1. gesith
  2. gesithcund
  3. gesithcundman
  4. gesithcundmen
  5. gesithman
  6. gesithmen
  7. gesiths
  8. Geskalhuheraa
  9. Geske
  10. Geskes
  11. Gesler

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