Bælca, balca

古英語辞典によると:

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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

関連語: 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