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watel

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
watel, es; m.
A wattle, interwoven twigs
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  • Watul

    teges,

      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 26: Zup. 52, 13.
  • Hé mycelne aad gesomnode on beámum and on ræftrum and on wágum and on watelum and on ðacum

    advexit plurimam congeriem trabium. tignorum, parietum, virgeorum, et tecti fenei,

      Bd. 3, 16; S. 542, 23.
  • Ðá ástigon hig uppan ðæne hróf þurh ða watelas

    (per tegulas)

    and hine mid ðam bedde ásendon,
      Lk. Skt. 5, 19.
Etymology
[v. wattle (subst. and vb.) in Baker's Northants Gloss. : wattle to tile, Halliwell's Dict. : watteled, Piers P. 19, 323.]
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