Meanings
- not comparableobsoletepoeticTogether.First known use 13th–18th c.
So goodly all agreed they forth yfere did ryde.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
From Old English ge- + fēra 'associate, comrade, fellow-disciple'.
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