Sceafa

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - sceafa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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sceafa
m. A plane :-- Sceaba runcina, Txts. 92, 853. Scafa olatrum. Wrt. Voc. i. 287, 11: ii. 64, 13. Hé sceal habban æcse, adsan, scafan, sage, Anglia ix. 263, 2. [Prompt. Parv. schave or schavynge knyfe scalpellum, scalprum: O. H. Ger. scaba plana, asperella: Ger. schabe: Du. schaaf a plane: Icel. skafa a scraper.]

Related words: mǽlsceafa, sceafan. sceafa

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