Cnyll

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - cnyll

According to the Old English Dictionary:

cnyll
Add: I. clang, sound from metal:--S. Petrus þá duru belýcó . . . and hé þonne weorpeð þá cǽga ofer his exle intó helle. . . . Hlúd bið se cnyll ofer ealle eorðan, þonne seó cǽg fealleð innon helle, Hml. A. 169, 138. II. the stroke, sound of a bell:--Fram þám cnylle a primo pulsu, Angl. xiii. 432, 964. Siðþan hý þone forman cnyl (signum) tó nóne gehýren, R. Ben. 74, 5. Þone óðerne cnyll secundum signum, R. Ben. I. 82, 13.

Related words: fore-cnyll. cnyll

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