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<P>Charles O'Connor</P>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Stacie Larson <csrpnt@yahoo.com><BR>To: General Mailing List for the Barony of Stierbach <moo@stierbach.org><BR>Sent: Friday, April 4, 2008 9:11:15 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [Moo] Hatchets and other synonyms<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Award of the Vined Barbe could be spiffy. It works equally well in reverse, too - Award of the Barbed Vine.<BR><BR>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Karen <karen_larsdatter@yahoo.com><BR>To: The Barony of Stierbach <moo@stierbach.org><BR>Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2008 10:19:04 PM<BR>Subject: [Moo] Hatchets and other synonyms (was Re: Axe)<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN>I may be late to the party on this, but "hatchet" is actually A Real Period Word. You can find some spellings of it in context at <A href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED19757&egs=all&egdisplay=open" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED19757&egs=all&egdisplay=open</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>But if we're going for a medieval English word for an axe, my vote's for the more obscure 'wifle':<BR><SPAN><A href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=243159508&egdisplay=open&egs=243161166" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=243159508&egdisplay=open&egs=243161166</A></SPAN><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></SPAN><BR>Some other axe-words in medieval English, with their various
spellings:<BR><BR>'ax'<BR><SPAN><A href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED3312&egs=all&egdisplay=open" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED3312&egs=all&egdisplay=open</A></SPAN><BR><BR>'batel-ax'<BR><SPAN><A href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED3778&egs=all&egdisplay=open" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED3778&egs=all&egdisplay=open</A></SPAN><BR><BR>'bol-ax'<BR><SPAN><A href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED5425&egs=all&egdisplay=open" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED5425&egs=all&egdisplay=open</A></SPAN><BR><BR>'borstax'<BR><SPAN><A href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED5571&egs=all&egdisplay=open" target=_blank
rel=nofollow>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED5571&egs=all&egdisplay=open</A></SPAN><BR><BR>'hache'<BR><SPAN><A href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED19755&egs=all&egdisplay=open" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED19755&egs=all&egdisplay=open</A><BR><BR>'thixel'<BR><SPAN><A href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED45354&egs=all&egdisplay=open" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED45354&egs=all&egdisplay=open</A></SPAN><BR></SPAN><BR><BR>'barbe' is the cutting edge of an axe<BR><SPAN><A href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=11379161&egdisplay=open&egs=11381503" target=_blank
rel=nofollow>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=11379161&egdisplay=open&egs=11381503</A></SPAN><BR><BR><BR><BR>Karen<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><BR>
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