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nere [CL] 1 to spin; b (w. ref. to the Fates); c (pr. ppl. as sb. f.) spinner. solent femine nentes fusum in dextera, colum tenere in sinistra Bede Prov. 1034; nentes, fila torquentes GlC N 82; [femina] defertur cum ‥ filaticis telis sicut nebat in ecclesiam Gosc. Wulsin 15; verba ‥ nentium in plateis mulierum Petrus Dial. 5; nente illa vel urdiente seu quippiam aliud operis efficiente R. Cold. Cuthb. 124; omphale ‥ que eum nere et mulierum officia coegit exercere Alb. Lond. DG 13. 1.  b nesque mihi, Lachesis, pollice fila truci Babio 242; fataque segnia fila tenacia nendo morari Nig. Paul. f.50v l.654; Reg. Whet. I 156 (v. epigrammatice).  c a nentibus linum in longum producitur Ailr. Inst. Inclus. 26; nec pectrix nec nens ‥ / sint ibi, nec carpens lanam nec lina flagellans D. Bec. 2214. 2 to sew. netum, gesiuwid GlC N 74.

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