krapti

a, m. [akin to kraptr], a bar, one of a ship’s timbers, a rib or knee, Edda (Gl.); eyri skal bæta fyrir krapta hvern, N. G. L. i. 100; krapta-valr, ‘timber-hawk,’ poët. a ship, Ó. H. (in a verse); the bar across the inside of a shield, cp. Gr. κανών, krapti geirbrúar, Vellekla: metaph., krapti skóla, the main pillar of a school, epithet of a bishop, Gd. 13.

II. = kraptr; hafa nokkurn krapta (acc.) aldrsins, Fms. xi. 14; hafa engu minna krapta, x. 318.