Yrða

húnn

nafnorðkarlkyn
1. [ κωνος], a knob: the knob at the top of the mast-head; draga segl við hún, or í hún upp, or vinda upp segl við húna, to hoist a sail to the top, 17, Tríst. 8, iii. 410.
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2. the knob at a staff’s end; stafs-húnn, the knob on a door handle : a slice, skera svá breiðan hún til beins er bast er langt, of a whale’s blubber, i. 59.3. a piece in a game, from its cone-like shape: from the phrase, verpa húnum, to cast (throw) the piece ‘hún,’ it seems to follow that this game was either similar to the δίσκος or rather to the nine pins; þeirs í Haralds túni húnum verpa, Hornklofi, 5 (in a verse); in 32 the ‘hundum verpa’ is no doubt a false reading for ‘húnum verpa;’ the riddle in , (where the answer is, þat er húninn í hnettafli,) is obscure and corrupt in the text, for the hnettafl or hneftafl () was quite a different game.2. a young bear, Kormak, i. 367, i. 253, 35, 176, 26, 530, passim; bjarnar-húnn, a bear’s young: in local names, Húna-flói, Húna-vatn, Húnavatns-þing, -sýsla, ; Húnavatns-leið, iii. 21.II. an urchin, boy, 22, 30, 32, 12.
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  • prob.probably.
  • mod.modern.
  • q. v.quod vide.
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