KÓLFR

(-s, -ar), m.

1) clapper, tongue of a bell;

2) a kind of bolt; svá skjótt (snart) sem kólfi skjóti (skyti), swift as an arrow.

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m. [akin to Engl. club, Germ. kolb], the tongue in a bell, Fms. vi. 147: kólf-klukka, u, f. a bell with a tongue, Pm. 129; (kólf-lauss, adj. without a k., Vm. 9): the bulb of a plant: endi-k., a sausage, Ísl. Þjóðs. i. 177.

II. a kind of bolt, Swed. kolf, Rm. 43, Þiðr. 371, Karl. 68, 244, N. G. L. i. 69; bakka-kólfr, a bird bolt; for-kólfr, q. v.: the phrase, sem kólfi skyti, swift as a bolt, as lightning, Fms. ii. 183, vii. 343, Sturl. iii. 220. kólf-skot, n. a bolt shot, of distance, Edda 31.