Scyttels

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - scyttels

According to the Old English Dictionary:

scytels, es;

scyttels
m. A bar, bolt:--Ða scytelses (scittelsas, MS. O.) tóburston, Homl. Skt. i. 3, 348. Openiaþ ðás gatu and ða fæstan scytelsas, Wulfst. 230, 31. Scytelsas seras, Ps. Spl. 147, 2. Scettelsas, Hymn. Surt. 122, 28. Scyttylsum vectibus, Germ. 399, 349. [Þet (the cross) is þet scutles þe ðe deofel ne mei nefre tocysan, O. E. Homl. i. 127, 35.] and preceding word. scyttels

Related words: fore-scyttels,

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