stuðill
nafnorðkarlkyn
[styðja], anything that ‘steadies,’ a stud, prop, stay; styrkir stuðlar, 5; þá skulu styrkir stuðlar styðja þik alla vegu, 41; tjöld ok tveir stuðlar, 308 (= columna of the Vulgate); þeir settu þar í stuðla, ok festu þar við víggyrðlana, viii. 216; öruggir stuðlar bæði brjósti ok herðum, 4.
2. usages, an upright on board ship, (Gl.): the four posts of a box are called stuðlar (meis-stuðull, to rim, ): pentagonal basalt columns are also called stuðlar, and stuðla-berg, is a basaltic dyke.II. and as a metrical term, the supporter, second repeated letter in an alliterative verse; thus in ‘sól varp sunnan sinni mána,’ the s in ‘sunnan’ and ‘sinni’ is stuðill, supporting the head-stave in ‘sól’ (see höfuðstafr, p. 308, col. 2), i. 596, 612, ii. 150.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- spec.specially.
- opp.opposed.
- q. v.quod vide.
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- Barl.Barlaams saga. (F. III.)
- Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Anecd.Anecdoton. (H. II.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)