Sceát-líne

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sceát-líne

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 sceát-líne

f. The sheet of a sail, the rope fastened to the lower end of a sail:--Sceátlíne (sceac-, MS.) propes, Wrt. Voc. i. 56, 62: 63, 58. Cf. fótráp propes, 48, 25, and Icel. skaut-reip. sceat-line

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛖᚪᛏ-ᛚᛁᚾᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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