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wæl-fill

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wæl-fill, es; m.
Slaughter, carnage
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  • Wælfill

    cedes,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 67.
  • Wælfyl

    statis (stragis,

    v. Ald.
      173, 3), 93, 52.
  • Hér micel wælfill wæs æt Wóddesbeorge (Wódnes-,

      MS. E.), Chr. 592; Erl. 18, 30.
  • Blódgyte, wællfyll weres, morð mid mundum. Cd. Th. 92,

      11; Gen. 1527.
  • Heó underbæc beseah wið ðæs wælfylles (

    the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

    ).
      154, 29; Gen. 2563.
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  • wæl-fill, n.