vaðr

Old Norse

Etymology

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Noun

vaðr m (genitive vaðar, plural vaðir)

(fishing) fishing line

Derived terms

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

References

“vaðr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)

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