Trendel

m. I. a circle, ring :-- Án wúnderlíc trendel (mirabilis corona) wearð ateówed ábútan ðære sunnan, Chr. 806; Erl. 60, 25. Gelden trendel circulus aureus (in naribus suis, Prothe mark for short quantity, i. e. o. ) ys ánes trendles dǽl ðus licgende, Anglia viii. 333; , 29. On trendle in rota. Hpt. 01. 471, 2. Stríc ðú mid ðínum scytefingre, swilce ðú trændel wyrce, Techm. ii. 129, 9. Trendla circulorum (the rings on a peacock's tail), Hpt. Gl. 419, 8. Ia. a circle used in calculation :-- Ð ás þing wégeopeniaþ bet on ðissum trendle (cf. gým ðisses hwióles; hyt ðé ætýwþ eall ðæs mónan ryne, 33 : and: Ðás circulas synt behéfe preóstum, 44), Anglia viii. 328, 38. I b. figurative :-- Trendel (bentdicens) caronam (anni), Blickl. Gl. : Ps. Spl. T. 64, 12. II. where a surface, plane or spherical, is denoted, a disk, orb :-- Ðoes mónan trendel is symle gehál, þeáh ðe eall endemes eallunga ne scíne, Lchdm. iii. 242, 4: Hpt. Gl. 418, 16. Ðære sunnan trendel. Homl. Th. ii. 606, 12. Trendles sphaerae, trendel sphaera, Hpt. Gl. 489, 22, 23. Scínendne trendel heofones, Hymn. Surt. 22, 17. Trendlum orbibus, Hpt. Gl. 490, 76. II a. a round place, a circus :-- Trendles, hrincgsetles circi, Hpt. Gl. 488, 69. The word and the connected forms trend, trind, tn'n seem to occur in local names, Wick, trendil sphaera: Prompt. Parv. trendy] troclea. Trendel giraculum, Wülck. Gl. 586, 29 : trendell catantrum, 571, 19. Halliwell gives trindle = wheel as a Derbyshire word. adj. , and following words. trendel