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hweogol

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Wright's OE grammar
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Add:, hweogola (?), an; m.
a wheel
of any kind
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  • Ǽlc gesceaft hwearfað on hire selfre swá swá hweól,

      Bt. 25 ; F. 88, 33.
  • Hweowlu

    rotas,

      Germ. 392, 54.
of a vehicle
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  • On wǽnes eaxe hwearfiað þá hweól and sió eax stent stille. . . ꝥ hweól hwerft ymbúton,

      Bt. 39, 7 ; F. 220, 27-29.
  • Sum cild . . . bearn under ánum yrnendum hweóle, and wearð tó deáðe tócwýsed,

      Hml. Th. ii. 26, 25.
a fixed wheel as (part of) a machine
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  • Wǽg þænne wé mid hlædele, hlædtrendle (hweowla, hweowl; hweowlan, Hpt. Gl. 418, 32) úp hladan

    limpham, quam anthlia, hoc est, rota hauritoria exanthlamus.

      An. Ox. 502.
  • Hét se cásere gebindan Georium on ánum brádum hweowle.

    . . Hé wearð gebróht on þám hweowle, þá tyrndon þá hǽðenan hetelíce ꝥ hweowl, and hit sóna tóbærst,
      Hml. S. 14, 85-94.
the wheel of Fortune
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  • Gif þú bé selfne tó anwealde þám woruldsǽlþum gesealdest. . . Wénst þú ꝥ ðú ꝥ hwerfende hweól þonne hit on ryne wyrþ mæge oncyrran ?

    fortunae e rigendum dedisti. . . Tu vero votventis rotae impetvm retinere conaris?

      Bt. 7. 2 ; F. 18, 35.
  • II.

    a circular band

    :-- Hé sǽde ꝥ þá Drihtnes fótlástas wǽron beworht mid ǽrne hweóle and þæs heánes wǽre oð monnes swýran, and ꝥ þǽr wǽre ðyrel on middum þǽm hweóle (cf. Is þǽr geworht emb þá lástas útan hwéne wíddre þonne bydenfæt úp oþ mannes breóst heáh; wæs ꝥ ǽreste of grénum áre geworht; . . . is on westan medmycel duru,
      Bl. H. 127, 5-8), Shrn. 81, 11-14.
a circle or
cycle used in computation
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  • Gým þisses hweóles, hyt þé ætýwþ genóh openlíce þæs mónan ryne,

      Angl. viii. 328, 33.
  • v. hlæd-hweogol, mylen-hweogol, sceard-hweogol (?).
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v.  sceard-hweogol hwegl.
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Word-wheel

  • hweogol, n.