vaðr

Old Norse

Etymology

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Noun

vaðr m (genitive vaðar, plural vaðir)

  1. (fishing) fishing line

Derived terms

  • vaðarhald (“the management of a fishing-line”)

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “vaðr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
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