Hwet-stán

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hwet-stán

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 hwet-stán

m. A whetstone :-- Hwetstán cos, Ælfc. Gl. 58; Som. 67, 100; Wrt. Voc. 38, 25: Ors. 4, 13; Bos. 100, 30. Nim ðonne hwetstán brádne then take a broad whetstone, Lchdm. iii. 16, 21. [O. H. Ger. wezi-stein, cos; Ger. wetz-stein.] hwet-stan

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚹᛖᛏ-ᛋᛏᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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