naut-högg

naut-högg
n. ‘neat-blow,’ the blow which fells an ox; nú vil ek eigi bíða nauthöggsins, I will not wait for the ‘neat-blow,’ Fms. vii. 244; cp. bíða einsog boli höggs, to wait for the blow like a bull, of a person undecided and as if in a kind of stupor.

An Icelandic-English dictionary. . 1874.

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