KEFLI
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n. [kafli], a cylinder, stick, piece of wood; álnar löng kefli öll ok smæri, Jb. 317; viðar-reki fylgir allr nema kefla reki, Vm. 130, Grett. 169 new Ed., Fms. vii. 170, xi. 347, Fs. 137; rísta rúnar á kefli, to carve Runes (magical characters) on a k., Gísl. 67, Eg. 605, Grett., Sd. 140, 141: a gag, Fms. ii. 179.
II. a mangle; svá eru Flosa ráð sem fari kefli, F.’s plans are a rolling cylinder (= Gr. οἱ δε κυλίνδροις ἄλλοτ ἐπ ἀλλα φέρονται), the metaphor being probably taken from a mangle:—laga-kefli, see lög.