Word of the Day: BREAD-WRIGHT

ETYMOLOGY
from bread + wright (a workman, artificer)

EXAMPLE
… And her wrigteleslike holden in bond. 
Quað ðis
bred wrigte liðeð nu me. 
me drempte ic bar bread lepes ðre.
…”

From: Genesis and Exodus, composed c1250;
Joseph and his Brethren
in: Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250
By: Joseph Hall, 1920

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