- KENGR
- m.1) a horseshoe-formed crook;2) bend, bight;köttrinn beygði kenginn, arched its back.* * *m. [cp. Shell. keeng = a brook; North. E. and Dutch kink = a creek, fold; mod. Engl. kink or twist in a rope]:—a horseshoe-formed crook of metal, Safn 67, 84, Munk. 103, hurðar kengr; Vm. 56 (of a bell): a bend, bight, en köttrinn beygði kenginn, Edda (Ub.) ii. 285; beygja sik í keng, to crouch; þó var upp ór kryppu kengr, Skíða R. 8: a nickname, Landn.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.