Scip-hamer

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scip-hamer

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: hamer. scip-hamer

Definitions

1 scip-hamer

m. A hammer carried in the hand, by which a signal is given to the rowers:--Sciphamor portisculus vel hortator remigum, Wrt. Voc. i. 48, 20.

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᛈ-ᚻᚪᛗᛖᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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