Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

hand-bóc

  • noun [ feminine ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
hand-bóc, e; f.
A hand-book, manual
Show examples
  • Hand-bóc

    manualis,

      Wrt. Voc. 81, 46.
  • Ða hálgan béc saltere and pistolbóc ... sangbóc and handbóc

    the holy books: psalter and epistle-book ... book of canticles and manual,

      L. Ælf. C. 21; Th. ii. 350, 14.
Etymology
[Ger. hand-buch.]
Full form

Word-wheel

  • hand-bóc, n.