Twisled

Old English Dictionary Entry

Twisled

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: next word. twisled

Definitions

1 twisled

adj. (ptcpl.) Forked :-- On ðone twisledan beám; of ðam twisledan beáme on ceorla geat; andlang mearce on ða twysledan ác, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 14, 1-4. Twisld corn scandula (scandella genus annonae apud Italos, q. alii dicunt hordeum distichum esse, alii vero hordeum cantherinum, Migne), Wrt. Voc. i. 38, 45. [Cf. Icel. kvísla-tré a forked tree; tví-kvíslaðr two-pronged.]

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ᛏᚹᛁᛋᛚᛖᛞ

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