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of any dwelling
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  • On middan ðǽre flóre his fægeran botles (Cuthbert's hermitage),

    • Hml. Th. ii. 144, 3.

  • ꝥ se líg náht þǽre burge botles ne gehrínan ne dorste

    ut flamma contingere quidquam aedi-ficii non auderet,

    • Gr. D. 48, 11
      • .

  • Wé ceorfað heáh treówu on holte ðæt wé hí eft up árǽren on ðǽm botle, ðǽr ðǽr wé timbran willen

    altum silvae lignum succidimus, ut hoc in aedificii tegmine sublevemus,

    • Past. 433, 36
      • .
of a considerable (royal, monastic, &c.) dwelling
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  • On Donafelda, ðǽr wæs dá cyninges botl

    (villa regia),

    hét Édwine þǽr cyricean getimbrian, þá þá hǽþenan mid ealle þý botle forbaerndon . . . For þám þá æftran cyningas him botl

    (uillam)

    worhton on þám lande þe Loidis is háten,

    • Bd. 2, 14
      • ;
    • Sch. 173, 13-21
      • .

  • Þæs cynges botl,

    • Hml. Th. i. 244, 19
      • :
    • ii. 480, 6
      • .

  • Tó Melantian (cf. wíf wæligon ǽhtum, Melantia gecýged, 133) botle,

    • Hml. S. 2, 262
      • .

  • Naboð hæfde ǽnne wíneard wið ðæs cynincges botl,

    • 18, 172
      • .

  • Wið þæt botl Salustii,

    • Hml. Th. i. 428, 10
      • .

  • Se biscop him ðǽr mynsterlic botl timbrian hét,

    • 508, 30
      • .

  • Hét hé ontendan eal hire (the abbess Effigenia) botl, þǽr heó mid (má ðonne twám hund, cf. 476, 20) mǽdenum on gebedum ðurhwunode,

    • ii. 478, 35.
  • ¶ Bottle remains in local names, e.g. Newbottle
Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. bottle.
O. Sax. bodl
:
O. Frs. bodel
:
Icel. ból.
]
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v. cyne-botl; bold.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “botl.” 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/40759.

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