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Pundar

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a plumb-line :-- Pundar perpendiculum, modica petra de plumbo, quam ligant in filo quando aedifeant parietes, Txts. 112, 36. [Cf. punder librilla, ' librilla est baculus cum corrigia plumbata, ad librandum carnes,' Prompt. Parpunder, to balance evenly, as an East-country word. Icel. pundari a steel yard.] pundar
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ᛈᚢᚾᛞᚪᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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