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efel

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Searchable Lemmata: efel (AF).
Alternate Forms:

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) ; probably the thrum, the ends of the warp-threads left after cutting away the woven cloth.(1200 - 1300)
1. licia: filturs, efel ... navicule: espoule ... fimbribus: a gerauns Gloss. [AND TLL (ii 88) ante 1300]
c.f.: filtur, licium, thrum
AF; Primarily Gloss.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, a nominative derivative of fil 'thread', by way of the verb e(s)filer (Modern French effiler), 'taper, unravel, run to threads, remove thread by thread', attested in Old French from the end of the 11th century.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog:
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