Tord-wifel

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - tord-wifel

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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tord-wifel
m. A dung-beetle; scarabaeus stercorarius :-- Ðǽr ðú geseó tordwifel on eorþan up weorpan, ymbfó hine mid twám handum mid his geweorpe, Lchdm. ii. 318, 15. [Icel. tord-yfill.] Cf. scearn-wifel. tord-wifel
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