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trendel

  • noun [ masculine ]
  • adjective
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trendel, es; m. I.
a circle, ring
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  • Án wúnderlíc trendel (

    mirabilis corona)

    wearð ateówed ábútan ðære sunnan,
      Chr. 806; Erl. 60, 25.
  • Gelden trendel circulus aureus (in naribus suis, Prov. II, 22), Kent. Gl. 373 . Brevis virgula (

    the mark for short quantity,

    i. e. o. ) ys ánes trendles dǽl ðus licgende, Anglia viii.
      333; , 29.
  • On trendle

    in rota.

      Hpt. 01. 471, 2.
  • Stríc ðú mid ðínum scytefingre, swilce ðú trændel wyrce,

      Techm. ii. 129, 9.
  • Trendla circulorum (the rings on a peacock's tail), Hpt. Gl. 419, 8. Ia. a circle used in calculation :-- Ð ás þing wégeopeniaþ bet on ðissum trendle (cf. gým ðisses hwióles; hyt ðé ætýwþ eall ðæs mónan ryne, 33 :

    and:

    Ðás circulas synt behéfe preóstum, 44), Anglia viii.
      328, 38.
  • I b. figurative

    Trendel

    (bentdicens) caronam (anni),

      Blickl. Gl. : Ps. Spl. T. 64, 12.
where a surface, plane or spherical, is denoted,
a disk, orb
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  • Ðoes mónan trendel is symle gehál, þeáh ðe eall endemes eallunga ne scíne, Lchdm. iii. 242, 4: Hpt.

    Gl.

      418, 16.
  • Ðære sunnan trendel. Homl.

    Th. ii.

      606, 12.
  • Trendles sphaerae, trendel

    sphaera,

      Hpt. Gl. 489, 22, 23.
  • Scínendne trendel heofones,

      Hymn. Surt. 22, 17.
  • Trendlum orbibus, Hpt. Gl. 490, 76. II a. a round place, a circus :-- Trendles, hrincgsetles

    circi,

      Hpt. Gl. 488, 69.
  • The word and the connected forms trend, trind, tn'n seem to occur in local names, v. Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 343, 344. [Wick, trendil sphaera: Prompt. Parv. trendy] troclea. Trendel giraculum, Wülck. Gl. 586, 29 : trendell

    catantrum,

      571, 19.
  • Halliwell gives

    trindle

    = wheel as a Derbyshire word.
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v. sin-trendel; adj. , and following words.
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Word-wheel

  • trendel, n.; adj.