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Old English Dictionary Entry

Bil, bill

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1 bil, bill

Dele Dut. and Ger. cognates, and add: [I. a falchion, II. a bill, an implement for cutting (wood, stone, weeds) :-- Síðe vel bill falcastrum, Wrt. Voc. i. 16, 16: 34, 16. Bill bidubium (ferramentum rusticum idem quod falcastrum, Migne), i. marra, ii. 12, 74: marra, 57, 70. Se hálga man [Benedict) ágeaf þám Gotan þone gelóman (þæt bill, ), and cwæð: 'Hér is þín bill (falcastrum, 113, 18), Gr. D. 114, 17. Bill chalibem (cf. 92, 7, a gloss on Ald. 159, 33 where the incident of the preceding passage is related), Wrt. Voc. ii. 20, 57. Hé sceal habban æcse, adsan, bil, Angl. ix. 263, 1.
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛁᛚ, ᛒᛁᛚᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

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Works & Authors

Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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