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hwæl

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Wright's OE grammar
§54; §233; §325; §336;
Add: A large kind of whale (as compared with hran, q. v. )
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  • Hran oððe hwæl

    ballena,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 67.
  • Hwæl ballenam .i.

    diabolum,

      An. Ox. 6, 12.
  • God gesceóp þá micelan hwalas (

    cete grandia

    ),
      Gen. 1, 21.
  • Hwælas,

      Angl. viii. 310, 18.
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