Sceamol

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - sceamol

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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sceamol
m. A bench, stool. The word remains in the form shambles, properly stalls or benches on which butchers expose meat for sale:-- Sceamul scabellum, Wrt. Voc. i. 81, 24. Scamol subsellium, 289, 24. Scamel, sceamul, sceamol scabellum, Ælfc. Gr. 8 ; Zup. 31, 7. Scamul, scæmol. Ps. Spl. 98, 5. Ðara mynetera sceamelas mensas nummulariorum, Mt. Kmbl. 21, 12. Sceomolas, Blickl. Homl. 71, 18. Swá forþ be efise tó lippan hamme; ðæt tó ðám scamelan ; swá forþ tó stapole. Cod. Dip. Kmbl. O. Sax. fót-skamel: O. H. Ger. scamal scabellum, subsellium: Ger. schemel a stool: Dan. skammel. From Lat. scamellum.] v. fót-, rǽde-, rǽding-sceamol. sceamol

Related words: 184, 14. [Þe 'halewen makeden of al þe worlde ase ane stol (scheomel, MS. C.: schamel, MS. T. ) to hore uet, A. R. 166, 16. I sal set þe faas of þe schamel of þi fete to be, Ps. 109, I.

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