To glue together or to unite firmly; archaic past tense of beglue.
From the verb beglue, combining the prefix be- with glue (from Old French glu, from Latin gluten, meaning sticky substance). The -ew spelling represents an archaic past tense formation.
Words like 'beglew,' 'begrew,' and 'beflew' show a pattern: Early Modern English sometimes created past tenses with -ew (like 'blew,' 'flew,' 'grew'), but most of these old forms died out as English regularized to -ed endings.
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