Windel-streáw

Old English Dictionary Entry

Windel-streáw

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -streów, es; Related words: windle-straws, E. D. S. Pub. Plant Names) :-- Eár

Definitions

1 windel-streáw

n. Windle-straw, some kind of coarse grass or reed (spica, egle aresta, windelstreów calmum, Wrt. Voc. i. 287, 22: ii. 16, 74. Genim ðæt micle greáte windelstreáw twyecge, ðæt on worþium wixð, Lchdm. ii. 44, 4.

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᚾᛞᛖᛚ-ᛋᛏᚱᛖᚪᚹ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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