Hand-hwíl

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hand-hwíl

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hand-hwíl
f. A moment :-- Nis ná eów tó gewitenne ða tíd oððe ða handhwíle ðe mín Fæder gesette þurh his mihte it is not for you to know the hour or the moment that my Father hath appointed through his might, Homl. Th. i. 294, 26. [Orm. inn an hanndhwile in a moment of time: A. R. hondhwule: Piers P. handwhile.] hand-hwil
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