Old English Dictionary Entry

Brastlung

Part of speech: e;

Definitions

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1 brastlung

f. A BRUSTLING, rustling, creaking, breaking, crashing; strepitus, crepitus, fractio :-- Híg tobrǽcon ða búcas mid micelre brastlunge they broke the pitchers with great crashing, Jud. 7, 20. Brastlung treówa rustling of trees, Ælfc. Gr. 1; Som. 2, 35: Greg. Dial. 1, 2. brastlung

Similar Words

-bald
-bátian, -bátung
-beámed(e)
-beámen
-bearde, -beardede

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚱᚪᛋᛏᛚᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Gr.: Ælfric's Grammar
Som.: Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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