† warytren.
Obsolete.
A gallows, gibbet. Often applied to the Cross.
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gallowsOE
gallows-treea1000
warytre?a1200
gibbet?c1225
gallow-forka1250
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a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678
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stob1860–62
?a1200 Charter of Æthelric a.d. 706 in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 375 Norð fro Beornedune siðe ðe wowe brondred; siðe to ðe waritroe.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 143 Þenne beoȝe worldes men. gað bi grene weie towart þe waritreo. & þe deað of helle.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 99 Me ladde him amareȝen on waritreo to hongen. & driuen þurch his fouwer limen irnene neiles.
a1240 Wohunge in Old Eng. Hom. I. 283 A nu raise þai up þe rode. Setis up þe warh treo.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2850 And doð up an waritreo [c1300 Otho and doþ vp a wer-itreo] þer-on heo scullen winden.
c1290 Beket 2192 in S. Eng. Leg. 169 Heo bi-radden for-to nime þat holi bodi: and with wilde hors to-drawe And sethþe hangen it on a waritreo.
c1425 Engl. Conquest Ireland (1896) xiv. 34 Thay ne hadden no wone of warytres.
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