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skapt

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, or better skaft, [ sceaft; shaft; skaft; from skafa]:— a ‘shaved stick,’ a shaft, missile, 127; skapti réttara, , 3, 9, 34, i. 173; this original sense is obsolete in prose (for i. 173 is a paraphrase from a lost poem), except in the and phrase, skjóta skapti, 644, 22, 103; skjóta skapti í móti e-m, to shoot a shaft against, to withstand( reisa rönd við e-m); at engi maðr mundi skapti skjóta í móti honum, vii. 210, xi. 344, 214; as also in the law phrase, skipta jörðu með skapti, to measure land with a spear, 286.
2. of a shaft-shapen thing, a comet’s tail, ix. 482: the beam in a weaver’s loom, 2; skaptið upp af hettinum, of a high-raised hood, 178, 286: the shaft by which a top is spun, in skapt-kringla: the phrase, sýnisk mér sem hann muni ekki þar lengi gengit hafa skapta muninn, 35.3. a handle, haft, of an axe, hammer, knife, the shaft or pole of a spear or the like; var skaptið (of an axe), svart af reyk, 183: of a spear-shaft, 96; hafði Ólafr skaptið (the pole) en Hrappr spjótið (the spear’s head), 98; sviðu … járnvafit skaptið, i. 63; this is the common sense of the word.II. in local names, Skapt-á, Shaft-river, [ the and name Shafto]; whence Skaptár-fell (sounded Skapta-fell, Shap-fell in Westmoreland); Skaptar-fells-þing (sounded Skapta-fells-þing); whence Skapt-fellingar, the men from S., ; Skaptár-jökull, Skaptár-fells-jökull. 2. Skapti, a shaft-maker (?), as a nickname, and since as a name,
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