FLEINN
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m. [A. S. flán], a bayonet-like pike, Fms. iii. 224, Sks. 394, cp. Grett. 141.
β. the fluke of an anchor, Nj. 42, Orkn. 362; vide akkeris-fleinn.
2. a kind of shaft, a dart, = A. S. flán, Höfuðl. 10, 13, Rm. 32, Fms. i. 45, cp. Hkr. i. 159, Hm. 85, 151; hence poët. flein-drífa, u, f. a drift or shower of shafts; flein-stökkvandi and flein-varpaðr, m. epithets of archers.
3. a pr. name, Landn.; hence Fleins-háttr, m. a metre attributed to an old poet of that name, Edda (Ht.)