"blót" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001, John Lindow, Handbook of Norse Mythology, ABC-CLIO, page 35:",
          "text": "These show us the importance of verbal activity at a blót, specifically verbal activity aimed at producing a result, presumably by means of intervention by the deities.",
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          "text": "In the past, before Christianity spread across Europe, the average blót would generally have involved some sort of animal sacrifice.",
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          "text": "He soon comes back to land, makes a largely undescribed blót sacrifice to Óðinn, and receives confirmation of his god's approval in the flight of two cawing ravens.",
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          "text": "Do you know how to blót? / Do you know how to slaughter?"
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      "homophone": "bloat"
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