smiþ, m.n: a smith, worker in metals or in wood. (SMITH)
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Category Archives: arts + crafts
weall-stān
weall-stān, m.n: a stone for building. (WAY-all-STAHN)
windel
windel, m.n: a basket. (WIN-dell)
becca
becca, m.n: a beck, pick-axe, mattock. (BECK-ka)
gramatisc-cræft
gramatisc-cræft, m.n: the art of grammar. (GRAM-a-tish-KRAFT)
mǣgwlitian
mǣgwlitian, wk.v: to form, shape. (MAEY-WLI-tee-ahn)
cnotta
cnotta, m.n: a knot, fastening, knitting. (K’NOT-ta)
hearpe-streng
hearpe-streng, m.n: a harp-string. (HAY-ar-peh-STRENG)
The Maastricht Hours. Netherlands (Liège), 1st quarter of the 14th century. British Library, Stowe MS 17, f. 245r. [bl.uk]
swinsung-cræft
swinsung-cræft, m.n: music. (SWIN-zung-KRAFT)
A rabbit plays the pipe-organ as a dog works the bellows. The Macclesfield Psalter. England (East Anglia), c. 1330-1340. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 1-2005, f. 15r. [fitzwilliam.cam.ac.uk]
hweogul
hweogul, n.n: a wheel. [HWAY-oh-gull]
Fortune turns her wheel in Boethius’s Consolation de philosophie. Art by Coëtivy Master (Henri de Vulcop?). France (Paris), c. 1460-1470. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. 42, fol. 1v. [getty.edu]
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