Sceacel

According to the Old English Dictionary:

sceacel

II. add: an instrument for causing vibrations (III), an implement for striking the strings of a harp. [The passage to which belongs the gloss in Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 10 is : Ut nullus sermonum plectra resolvat, sed fidibus citharae moduletur carmina Christo, Ald, 138, 7.] sceacel

Related words: sceacan;