Flaxe

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - flaxe

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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FLAXE
f. A FLASK, bottle; flasca, fiasco, lăgēna :-- Flaxe flasca, Ælfc. Gl. 25; Som. 60, 65; Wrt. Voc. 25, 7. Twá treówene fatu wínes fulle, ða syndon on folcisc flaxan gehátene duo lignea vāsa vīno plēna, quæ sunt vulgo flascōnes vŏcāta, Greg. Dial. 1, 9: 2, 13. Ic bicge hýda and fell, and wyrce of him flaxan ĕgo ĕmo cŭtes et pelles, et făcio ex iis flascōnes, Coll. Monast. Th. 27, 37. [Plat. flaske, f: Dut. flesch, f: Ger. flasche, f: M. H. Ger. vlasche, vlesche, f: O. H. Ger. flasca, f: Dan. flaske, m. f: Swed. flaska, f; Icel. flaska, f; M. Lat. flasca, fiasco, Du Cange.] DER. wæter-flaxe. flaxe
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