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Before the Amyrlin can get to the bottom of Moiriaine's actions however, and Rand's part in recent events, the keep is attacked by Shadowspawn.

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  1. transitive verb To retain possession of: kept the change; must keep your composure.
  2. transitive verb To have as a supply: keep an ax in the shed.
  3. transitive verb To provide (a family, for example) with maintenance and support: "There's little to earn and many to keep” (Charles Kingsley).
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  • She saw some men running up the slope toward the front of the keep, their expressions grim. —  Garwood, Julie - The Wedding
  • The few engagements we make we don't keep, and I shall try for the future to avoid perjury. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
  • I've forgotten how to sleep alone--keep waking up, wondering why I don't hear anybody breathing except me. —  FSF,June2006
  • We know that the death of the gate-keep was discovered before the disappearance of Melisande, and we know the name of the man who discovered it. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • I would have you know that the master who ran this keep was as noble a soul as you. —  Wit'ch's Storm
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  1. Middle English kepen, from Old English cēpan, to observe, seize.

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  1. from Middle English kepen, kipen, from Anglo-Saxon cēpan (preterit cēpte, past participle cēped, cēpt) (= Middle Dutch kepen), observe, keep, take care of, regard, await, take. Anglo-Saxon cēpan in this sense is usually supposed to be a different use of cēpan, cy¯pan, traffic, sell (cf. ceápian, traffic), from ceáp, price, bargain (see cheap, n. and v.); but such connection is very doubtful. Cf. kip.
  2. from Middle English kepe, heed, care; from keep, v.
 

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