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sweord-fetels

  • noun [ masculine ]
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sweord-fetels, -fætels, es; m.
A sword-belt
    Homl. Skt. i. 23, 178. Cf.
Se cásere heora ǽlces sweordfætelsas hét forceorfan the emperor ordered the sword-belts of each of them to be cut, Ðat swerd on hundtwelftian mancusas and fóur pund silueres on þan fetelse, Chart. Th. 505, 32. Ðæs swurdes mid ðam sylfrenan hylte ðe Wulfríc worhte and ðone gyldenan fetels, 558, 12.
Etymology
[Cf. O. H. Ger. swert-fezzil faidilus, vagidilus: Icel. sverð-fetill a sword-belt.]
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v. fetel.
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v.  fetels.
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