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.