Fót-þweál

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fót-þweál

According to the Old English Dictionary:

fót-þweál
Add:the washing of the feet of the poor, enjoined by the Church :-- Bisceopes dægweorc ... þearfena fótþweál, Ll. Th. ii. 314, 21. Se ercediácon geáxode má crístenra manna, and hí ... mid fótðweale geneósode, Hml. Th. i. 418, 27. Sceóte man ælmessan ... hwílum þearfena fótþweál, Wlfst. 171, 2. Féde man Godes þearfena swá fela swá man mǽst mæge, and ... baðige man ealle ... and sylf se dǽdbéta beó ymbe heora fótþweál, Ll. Th. ii. 288, 8. fot-þweal
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