See ceafl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"english": "It has seized my head in its jaws.",
"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost\"\nMīn hēafod hē hæfþ mid his ċeaflum befangen.",
"translation": "It has seized my head in its jaws.",
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{
"english": "The madman then turned his cheeks away from the holy man's hands as if from hot iron, and the accursed spirit departed the man through his genitals with shameful flight.",
"text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nSē wōda ðā āwende āweġ his ċeaflas fram ðǣre hālgan handa, swilċe fram hātum īsene, and sē āwyrġeda gāst ġewāt of ðām men ūt ðurh his ġesċēapu, mid sċēandlīcum flēame.",
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"ipa": "/t͡ʃæ͜ɑfl/"
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{
"ipa": "[t͡ʃæ͜ɑvl]"
}
],
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}
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