Wefl

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wefl

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; wefle (-a ; Related words: next word. wefl

Definitions

1 wefl

m.?), an; f. I. weft, woof, thread which crosses the warp: -- Weft vel ówef, uuefl cladica, caldica, Txts. 51, 482. Cladica wefl oððe ówef oððe claudica, Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, 4. Wefl vel óweb cladicla, 131, 59. Wefl cladica, 16, 31: i. 66, 13: 281, 76. Uuefl panuculum, ii. 116, 29: titica (cf. O. H. Ger. below), 122, 33. Weflan penniculae (the passage is: Nisi panniculae diversis colorum varietatibus fucatae inter densa filorum stamina ultro citroque decurrant, Ald. 15), Hpt. Gl. 430, 69. Wefla panucla (this is a gloss to the same passage as the preceding), Wrt. Voc. ii. 77, 13. Wundene mé (a coat of mail) ne beóð wefle (ueflæ, Txts. 151, 5), ne ic wearp hafu the threads of the woof are not twisted for me, nor have I a warp, Exon. Th. 417, 15 ; Rä. 36, 5. Wæfla pannicularum (colobium cum sine pompulenta pannicularum varietate ordiretur, Ald. 51), Hpt. Gl. 494, 9. Weflum panniculis (panuclis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 61, in a gloss to the same passage : Lanea filorum stamina ex glomere et panniculis revoluta, Ald. 8), 417, 30. II. an implement for weaving (-l suffix in words denoting implements, cf, scofi), a shuttle (?) :-- Hé sceal habban fela towtóla . . . pihten, wefte,wefle (or under I?), wulcamb, Anglia ix. 263, 13. [O. H. Ger. wefal (-el, -ii) datica, subtemen, stamen.]

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