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sticca

  • noun [ masculine ]
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sticca, an; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§310;
a stick, peg
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  • Sticca

    gergenna (gergenna

    lignum teres, quo per duas ansas transmisso operculum firmatur ne excidat, Migne),
      Wrt. Voc. i. 287, 38: ii. 41, 32.

  • Se sticca (

    the tent-peg

    him eode út þurh ðæt heáfod in tó ðære eorþan,
      Jud. 4, 21.

  • Styre mid sticcan,

      Lchdm. ii. 76, 26.
  • Genim twegen sticcan feðerecgede and wrít on ǽgðerne sticcan be hwælcere ecge, i. 386, 4-6.

  • Nim ǽnne sticcan and gníd tó sumum þinge, iii. 274, 3. I a.

    the pointer of a dial

    :-- Se sticca on ðæm dægmǽle, Anglia viii.
      317, 20.
a spoon (cf. spón)
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  • Lǽt yrnan ðæt blód on grénne sticcan hæslenne, weorp ðonne ofer weg áweg,

      Lchdm. ii. 142, 20: 144, 7: 104, 7.
  • Genim fíf sticcan fulle ecedes, i. 110, 21: iii. 4, 18.

  • Wring ðæt wós of, ánne sticcan fulne, and huniges þrý sticcan fulle,

      102, 14.

  • Nim wífes meolce þrý sticcæs fulla and cyleþena ánne sticce fulne,

      96, 27.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. steccho palus, paxillus, fustis, clavus: Icel. stika; f. a stick.]
Similar entries
v. candel-, clader-, geoc-, plant-, regol-, seám-, stór-, tóþ-sticca.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sticca.” 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/28938.

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