gelæccan

== Old English == === Etymology === From ge- +‎ læċċan. === Verb === ġelæċċan to grab (sometimes violently: snatch, catch, apprehend) c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr" Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript E, year 1009 late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Gregory the Great, Pope of Rome" Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church to pick up food to catch a disease to comprehend ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ge-læccan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ge-læccan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ge-læccan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.