Tapor-æx

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - tapor-æx

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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tapor-æx
f. A small axe :-- Swá feorr swá mæg án taperæx beón geworpen út of ðam scipe up on ðæt land quam longius de nave potest securis parvula, quam Angli vacant tapereax super terram projici, Chart. Th. 317, 30. Habbe hé áne taperæx on his [handa], Chr. 1031; Erl. 162, 8. [Icel. tapar-öx (borrowed from English).] tapor-æx
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