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bil, bill.
Dele Dut. and Ger. cognates, and add:
[a falchion, v. Dict.]
a bill, an implement for cutting (wood, stone, weeds)
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  • Síðe vel bill

    falcastrum,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 16, 16
    • :
    • 34, 16
    • .
  • Bill

    bidubium (ferramentum rusticum idem quod falcastrum, Migne), i. marra,

    • ii. 12, 74:

    marra,

    • 57, 70
    • .
  • Se hálga man (Benedict) ágeaf þám Gotan þone gelóman (þæt bill, v. l.), and cwæð: 'Hér is þín bill (v. wudubill falcastrum,

    • 113, 18
    • ),
    • Gr. D. 114, 17
    • .
  • Bill

    chalibem

    (cf. 92, 7, a gloss on Ald. 159, 33 where the incident of the preceding passage is related),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 20, 57.
  • Hé sceal habban æcse, adsan, bil,

    • Angl. ix. 263, 1
    • .
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v. cweorn-bill; case-bill.
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