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单词 bookfell
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bookfelln.

Forms: see book n. and fell n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: book n., fell n.1
Etymology: < book n. + fell n.1 Compare Old High German buohfel (Middle High German buochvel), Old Icelandic bókfell (probably < Old English).Revived in historical use in the 19th cent.
Obsolete (archaic in later use).
A skin prepared for writing upon, a sheet of vellum or parchment; a parchment or vellum manuscript.
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OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 304 Pergamenum uel membranum, bocfel.
OE Wulfstan Canons of Edgar (Corpus Cambr.) (1972) ii. 2 We lærað þæt hi to ælcon sinoðe habban ælce geare becc and reaf to godcundre þenunge, and blæc and bocfel to heora gerædnessum.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Royal) (1934) 53 (MED) Hire bone wes þat ich hit write on boc-felle.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 26 Feþeren he nom mid fingren & fiede on boc-felle.
1863 F. J. Furnivall in Reader 28 Feb. 214 Those who love tall folios and book-fells.
1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. p. ix Our ancient bookfells.
1878 G. Stephens Thunor the Thunderer 45 I cannot refer to any facsimile of this bookfell.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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