<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Snort. Well _obviously_ there will be now! :)<br><br>Cecily<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: J. Hughes <jphughessr@yahoo.com><br>To: General Mailing List for the Barony of Stierbach <moo@stierbach.org><br>Sent: Friday, April 4, 2008 9:30:35 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Moo] Hatchets and other synonyms<br><br>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p>You do not think there would be comments about the Vined Barbie?</p>
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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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED19757&egs=all&egdisplay=open">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=243159508&egdisplay=open&egs=243161166">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED3312&egs=all&egdisplay=open">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED3778&egs=all&egdisplay=open">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED5425&egs=all&egdisplay=open">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED5571&egs=all&egdisplay=open">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED19755&egs=all&egdisplay=open">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED45354&egs=all&egdisplay=open">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=11379161&egdisplay=open&egs=11381503">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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