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cwellere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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cwellere, es; m.
A killer, man-slayer, executioner, QUELLER, tormentor ; lanio, interfector, spiculator? carnifex
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  • Se cwellere

    the executioner,

    • Bd. 1, 7
    • ;
    • S. 478, 15,
    • 35.
  • Ða cwelleras

    the executioners; carnifices

    ,
    • 5, 19
    • ;
    • S. 638,
    • 29.
  • Herodes sende ǽnne cwellere, and bebeád ðæt man his heáfod on ánum disce brohte

    Herod sent an executioner, and commanded that they should bring his [John Baptist's] head on a dish,

    • Mk. Bos. 6,
    • 27.
  • Hyldere, oððe cwellere , oððe flǽsctawere [MS. flǽctawere]

    lanio, vel lanista, vel carnifex, vel macellarius,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 113
    • ;
    • Som. 79, 122
    • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 60,
    • 27.
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  • cwellere, n.