hweorfa
- noun [ masculine ]
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Hweorfa
vertuba,
- Wrt. Voc. 65, 16.
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Hwerfa
vertigo,
- Ælfc. Gl. 74 ;
- Som. 71. 49 ;
- Wrt. Voc. 44, 32
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Hweorfa
verticillum,
- Wrt. Voc. 66, 16:
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vertelum,
- 281, 72.
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Nim ðone hweorfan ðe wíf mid spinnaþ bind on his sweoran
take the whorl that women spin with, bind it on his neck,
- L. M. 3, 6 ;
- Lchdm. ii. 310, 21 .
Bosworth, Joseph. “hweorfa.” 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/20125.
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