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barmr

nafnorðkarlkyn
[ φορμός; barms = κόλπος and στηθος; param; barm; barm; all in the sense of gremium: this sense, however, is entirely unknown to old writers, who only apply the word in like sense as barð, namely, brim; ora]:—a brim:
α. the brim of a vessel (fötubarmr, pottbarmr, ), ii. 173; hence barma-fullr, or fullr á barma, full to the brim; the rim of a bell, 106.β. also the edge of a brook or well (lækjarbarmr, brunnbarmr): a chasm (gjárbarmr).γ. the border of the shore; eybarmr, ora insulae, (in a verse); víkrbarmr; also used in many local names of farms in δ. the wing of anything; lyptingarbarmr, the gunwale of the stern; kastalabarmr (wing of a castle), (in a verse); barmr hvarma, the edge of the eye-lids, ε. the flaps of a thing; reif hann allan í sundr ok kastaði börmunum á eldinn, iv. 339 (rare if not an )ζ. the notion of gremium, bosom, only appears after the Reformation, and even then rare; the bosom of a coat, geyma e-t á barmi sér; hægri, vinstri b., ; stinga hendinni í sinn eigin barm, Exod. iv. 6. barma, að, b. sér, to lament, is also a word, barmen bearmen; vide, however, baðmr.
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  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
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