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Substitute:
a bend, winding, tortuous way; anfractus (cf. anfractum, iter tortuosum
vel difficile,
    Corp. Gl. H. 18, 657)
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  • Stíge mistlicum hylcum dweliende (a

    recto) tramite errabundis anfractibus exorbitant.

      An. Ox. 3696 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 54.
  • Fram stíge geond wóge hylcas on þá swýþran hand búgende

    a tramite per obliquos anfractus dextra (levaque) declinantia,

    3427.
an inequality of surface, a hump, roughness of land
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  • Ábrocen land vel hilcas (-es, MS.)

    anfractus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 55, 12.
  • Wóge sméþiende hylcas

    salebrosos (i. asperos) conplanans anfractus.

      An. Ox. 1772.
  • Hyllceas,

      4, 28.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. hulch a hump.]
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v. ge-hylced.
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