dæla
nafnorðkvenkyn
u,
I. a small dale, ii. 100 ()II. a term, a contrivance to serve the purpose of a ship’s pump, (Gl.); hence dælu-austr, emptying a ship by a dæla, 131, 95; dælu-ker, a kind of bucket: hann hað þrælinn færa sér í d. þat er hann kaliaði sjó, Landu. 251; hence the phrase, láta dæluna ganga, to pour out incessantly, chatter without ceasing, 98. The ancients cannot well have known the pump; but as dælu-austr is distinguished from byttu-austr, where the buckets were handed up, so dæla seems to have been a kind of groove through which the bilge water was made to run out into the sea instead of emptying every bucket by handing it overboard: in Norse döla means a groove-formed trough, eaves, a trench, and the like, iv. 751, dæla, p. 75.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Ed.edition, editions, edited.
- naut.nautical.
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- s. v.sub voce.
- Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Fbr.Fóstbræðra saga. (D. II.)
- Grett.Grettis saga. (D. II.)
- D. N.Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)
- Ivar AasenIvar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.