Flocc-mǽlum

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - flocc-mǽlum

According to the Old English Dictionary:

floc-mǽlum;

flocc-mǽlum
adv. [mǽlum, dat. pl. of mǽl, es; n. a measure, q. By flocks, flockwise, in companies; grĕgātim, cătervātim :-- Fleóþ him floccmǽlum they fly by flocks, Homl. Th. i. 142, 9: Num. 2. 34. Hí hý flocmǽlum slógon they slew them in companies, Ors. 2, 5; Bos. 46, 6. Hí ferdon ǽghweder flocmǽlum they went everywhere in flocks, Chr. 1011; Erl. 145, 25. flocc-mælum

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