gafol-hwitel
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gafol-hwitel
. l. -hwítel
a whittle or
blanket to be paid to the lord as a tax.
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:- Toller, T. Northcote, and Joseph Bosworth. "gafol-hwitel." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 279.
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gafol-hwitel
, es; m. A tribute-whittle or blanket, a legal tender instead of coin for the rent of a hide of land; tribūtāria săga :-- Gafol-hwitel sceal beón æt híwisce vi pæninga weorþ a tribute-whittle from a hide [of land] shall be worth six pence, L. In. 44; Th. i. 130, 5. Cf. Grm. R. A. p. 378. Perhaps híwisc in the above passage should be translated 'family;' cf. Th. Chart. 144, 31.