hancred

== Old English == === Alternative forms === hancrǣd === Etymology === hana (“rooster”) +‎ *crēd === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈxɑnˌkreːd/, [ˈhɑnˌkreːd] === Noun === hancrēd m (historical) the period of the early morning when roosters begin to crow; the wee hours of morning The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ==== Usage notes ==== In Bede and others, this terms refers to a particular period of night following midniht (midnight) and before the first light of dawn. ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Hypernyms ==== niht === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hancrēd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. "Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy", p. 6, in Popular Treatises on Science Written during the Middle Ages (1841), London: Historical Society of Science.