Bælca, balca

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

(-e ?), an;

bælca, balca

m. (f. ?). Some kind of wooden fetter (? cf. D. D., s. Regulus plures Poenorum bello captos in vincula conjecerat, Bt. 16, 2; S. 37, 8. balca,bælca

Parole correlate: balk, 'a wooden frame for securing the cow's head while being milked'):--Mistlice þreála gebyriað for synnum, bendas oððe dyntas, lobban oððe bælcan, Ll. Th. ii. 278, 27. Þá Regulus hí swíðost forslagen hæfde, ðá hét hé hí bindan and on balcan lecgan