scipbroc

Old English

Etymology

From scip (“ship”) +‎ broc (“affliction, desease”).

Noun

sċipbroc n

1. affliction or labour when traveling on a ship

Related terms

• scipgebroc
• scipbryce

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “scip-broc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.