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trendel

  • noun [ masculine ]
  • adjective
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Grammar
trendel, es; m.
a circle, ring
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  • Án wúnderlíc trendel (mirabilis corona) wearð ateówed ábútan ðære sunnan,

    • Chr. 806;
    • Erl. 60, 25.

  • Gelden trendel

    circulus aureus (in naribus suis, Prov. II, 22),

    • Kent. Gl. 373.

  • Brevis virgula (the mark for short quantity, i. e. ∪)

    ys ánes trendles dǽl ðus licgende,

    • Anglia viii. 333, 29.

  • On trendle

    in rota.

    • Hpt. Gl. 471, 2.

  • Stríc ðú mid ðínum scytefingre, swilce ðú trændel wyrce,

    • Techm. ii. 129, 9.

  • Trendla

    circulorum (the rings on a peacock's tail),

    • Hpt. Gl. 419, 8.
a circle used in calculation
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  • Ðás þing wégeopeniaþ bet on ðissum trendle (cf. gým ðisses hwióles; hyt ðé ætýwþ eall ðæs mónan ryne, 33 : and: Ðás circulas synt behéfe preóstum, 44),

    • Anglia viii. 328, 38.
figurative
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  • Trendel

    (benedicens) coronam (anni),

    • Blickl. Gl.
      • :
    • Ps. Spl. T. 64, 12.
where a surface, plane or spherical, is denoted, a disk, orb
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  • Ðoes mónan trendel is symle gehál, þeáh ðe eall endemes eallunga ne scíne,

    • Lchdm. iii. 242, 4
      • :
    • Hpt. Gl. 418, 16.

  • Ðære sunnan trendel,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 606, 12.

  • Trendles

    sphaerae,

    trendel

    sphaera,

    • Hpt. Gl. 489, 22, 23.

  • Scínendne trendel heofones,

    • Hymn. Surt. 22, 17.

  • Trendlum

    orbibus,

    • Hpt. Gl. 490, 76.
a round place, a circus
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  • Trendles, hrincgsetles

    circi,

    • Hpt. Gl. 488, 69.
The word and the connected forms trend, trind, trin seem to occur in local names, v.
  • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 343, 344.
Etymology
[
Wick. trendil sphaera
:
Prompt. Parv. trendyl troclea.
Trendel giraculum, Wülck. Gl. 586, 29
:
trendell catantrum, 571, 19.
Halliwell gives trindle = wheel as a Derbyshire word.
]
Similar entries
v. sin-trendel; adj., and following words.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “trendel.” 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/30993.

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Word-wheel

  • trendel, n.; adj.

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