Sticca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sticca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: candel-, clader-, geoc-, plant-, regol-, seám-, stór-, tóþ-sticca. sticca

Definitions

1 sticca

m. I. a stick, peg:--Sticca gergenna (gergenna lignum teres, quo per duas ansas transmisso operculum firmatur ne excidat, Migne), Wrt. Voc. i. 287, 38: ii. 41, 32. Se sticca (the tent-peg him eode út þurh ðæt heáfod in tó ðære eorþan, Jud. 4, 21. Styre mid sticcan, Lchdm. ii. 76, 26. Genim twegen sticcan feðerecgede and wrít on ǽgðerne sticcan be hwælcere ecge, i. 386, 4-6. Nim ǽnne sticcan and gníd tó sumum þinge, iii. 274, 3. I a. the pointer of a dial:--Se sticca on ðæm dægmǽle, Anglia viii. 317, 20. II. a spoon (cf. spón):--Lǽt yrnan ðæt blód on grénne sticcan hæslenne, weorp ðonne ofer weg áweg, Lchdm. ii. 142, 20: 144, 7: 104, 7. Genim fíf sticcan fulle ecedes, i. 110, 21: iii. 4, 18. Wring ðæt wós of, ánne sticcan fulne, and huniges þrý sticcan fulle, 102, 14. Nim wífes meolce þrý sticcæs fulla and cyleþena ánne sticce fulne, 96, 27. [O. H. Ger. steccho palus, paxillus, fustis, clavus: Icel. stika; f. a stick.]

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ᛋᛏᛁᚳᚳᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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