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hacele

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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Grammar
hacele, an; f : hæcla, an; m [?]
Wright's OE grammar
§404;
A cloak, mantle, upper garment, coal, cassock.
  • Lye
gives the following meanings lacerna, subucula, capsula, mantilia, pl
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  • Hacele

    clamis,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 65
      • ;
    • Som. 69, 40
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 40, 67 : 110
      • ;
    • Som. 79, 51
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 59, 22
      • :
    • 284, 65
      • .

  • Ðá bewráh se árleása geréfa his ansýna mid his hacelan

    then the impious count covered his face with his cloak,

    • Nar. 42, 24
      • .

  • Ðá gegyrede heó hý mid hǽrenre tunecan and mid byrnan ðæt is mid lytelre hacelan

    she dressed herself in a tunic of hair and in a byrnie, that is in a little cassock,

    • Shrn. 140, 30
      • .

  • Ðá sende him mon áne blace hacelan angeán

    a black mantle [sagum] was sent to him,

    • Ors. 5, 10
      • :
    • Swt. 234, 22
      • .

  • Saulus heóld ealra ðæra stǽnendra hacelan

    Saul held the garments of all those who were stoning [Stephen],

    • Homl. Th. ii. 82, 22
      • :
    • i. 48, 1
      • .

  • Hæcla

    pallium

    ,
    • Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 5, 40
      • .
Etymology
[
Goth. hakuls; m. a cloak
:
O. Frs. hexil [ = hekil (?)]
:
Icel. hekla; f. a kind of cowled or hooded frock : hökull; m. a priest's cope
:
O. H. Ger. hachul cuculla, casula.
] See Grmm. D. M. 873 ff.
Derived forms
mæsse-hacele, 'In the West of England the word hackle is specially used of the conical straw roofing that is put over bee-hives. Also, of the "straw covering of the apex of a rick," says Mr. Akerman, Glossary of Wiltshire words, v. Hackle.' - Earle's Chronicle, p. 338.
Linked entries
v.  hæcele.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “hacele.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/17805.

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