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tól

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
tól, es ; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§298; §343;
that by which one makes things (cf.
Goth. taujan to make, do), a tool, implement, instrument,
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  • Tól

    ferramentum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 84, 60.

  • Tool

    instrumentum,

      21, 37.
  • Tohl. ii. 49, 23.

  • Mid. tóle

    instrumento, materia,

      Hpt. Gl. 443, 47.

  • Ðý læs hié mid ðý tóle (

    a surgeon's knife

    ) dæt hále líc gewierden, ðe hié sceoldon mid ðæt unhále áweg áceorfan,
      Past. 48 ; Swt. 365, 11.

  • Gif ðú ðin tól (cultrum) áhefst ofer hyt

    if thou lift up thy tool upon it

    (A.
      V.), Ex. 20, 25.

  • Hwílon befeóll án síðe of ðam snǽde into ánum deópan seáðe. Benedictus wolde gefréfrian ðone wyrhtan ðe ðæt tól ámyrde,

      Homl. Th. ii. 162, 12.

  • Wíglíce tól

    inslnimenta bellica.

      Hpt. Gl. 424, 28.

  • Eówer súteres tól

    uestri sutoris instrumenta,

      Ælfc. Gr. 15; Zup. 105, 15.

  • Mid lácniendlīcum tólum

    inslrumentis medicinalibus.

      Hpt. Gl. 478, 2.

  • Ðá cómon ða cempan (the soldiers at the crucifixion) mid cwylmbǽrum tólum, and ðæra sceaðena sceancan tóbrǽcon, Homl. Th. ii. 260, 7- Be mynstres tólum

    de ferramentis monasterii,

      R. Ben. 56, 2, 3.

  • Sylle man ðam gebúre tól tó his weorce and andláman tó his húse,

      L. R. S. 4 ; Th. i. 434, 26.

  • Ða nýdþearfe ... ðæt is mete and drync and cláþas and tól tó swelcum cræfte swelce ðú cunne ðæt ðé is gecynde,

      Bt. 14, l ; Fox 42, 6.

  • Gif ðú nelle ánum ólæcan, forlǽt eal ðæt ðú áge búton wiste and wǽda and to swylcum weorcum tól swylce ðú cunne,

      Prov. Kmbl. 80.
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  • Hwæt is hit elles bútan getimbrunga and tól háligra manna

    (instrumenta virtutum),

      R. Ben. 133, 9.

  • Ðis synt ða lára and ða tól gástlíces cræftes,

      L. E. 21; Th. ii. 418, 17.

  • Ðú wást ðæt nán mon ne mæg nǽnne cræft cýðan ne nǽnne anweald reccan bútan tólum and andweorce ... Ðæt biþ cyninges andweorc and his tól mid tó rícsianne, ðæt hé hæbbe his laud fullmannod ; hé sceal hæbban gebedmenn and fyrdmen and weorcmen. Hwæt ðú wást ðætte bútan ðisum tólum nán cyning his cræft ne mæg cýðan ... Ne mæg hé bútan ðisum

    (provisions of various kinds)

    ðás tól gehealdan, ne bútan ðisum tólum nán ðara þinga wyrcan ðe him beboden is tó wyrcenne.
      Bt. 17; Fox 58, 28-60, 7.
in a collective sense,
tools, machinery, apparatus
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  • Decius cwæd : 'Æteówiaþ his gesihðum eal ðæt wíta tól' (cf. eal ðæt pínungtól,

      428, 18). Ðá
    wurdon hrædlíce ford áborene ísene clútas, and ísene cláwa, and ísen bedd, and leádene swipa. Homl. Th. i. 424, 18.
Etymology
[Icel. tól; n. pl. tools, cf. Goth. taujan to do.]
Similar entries
v. pínung-, tow-, wíte-tól.
Linked entries
v.  tohl.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tól.” 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/30742.

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