Hand-wyrst

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-wrist, e;

hand-wyrst
f. The wrist :-- Fæðm betwux elboga and handwyrste cubitum, Ælfc. Gl. 72; Som. 70, 125; Wrt. Voc. 43, 51. [Halliwell gives hand-wrists as a Somersetshire word.] hand-wyrst
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