STRENGR

STRENGR
(-jar or -s; pl. -ir, gen. -ja), m.
1) string, cord, rope (strengir til at festa með hús); þeir ristu í strengi feldi sína, they cut their cloaks into strips;
2) anchor-cable; drekinn flaut um strengi, rode at anchor; liggja um strengi, to lie at anchor;
3) bow-string, = bogastrengr;
4) string of an instrument (glumðu strengir);
5) narrow channel of water, swift current (slyðrur nökkurar rak ofan eptir strengnum).
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m., gen. strengjar, pl. strengir, strengja, strengjum, strengi; [A. S. streng; Engl. string; O. H. G. strang; Dan. stræng]:—a string, cord, rope, with a notion of being hard-twisted; var strengr snaraðr at fótum þeim öllum, of an execution, Fms. i. 179; bundnir á einum streng, xi. 146; leysa menn ór strengnum, 147; strengir til at festa með hús, Nj. 115; þeir ristu í strengi feldi sína, they cut and twisted their cloaks into ropes, Ó. H. 152, Fms. xi. 3.
2. naut. a cable(anchor-cable, mooring-rope); bera strengi á land, Nj. 273; þeir skutu út bryggjunum ok slógu strenginum, ok drógu út skipin, Eg. 75; drekinn flaut um strengi, rode at anchor, Fas. i. 395; liggja um strengi, to lie at anchor, Ld. 76; heimta skipin út undir strengina, Fms. viii. 202, 379; draga upp strengi sína, Ó. H. 136; ek fæ dreng til strengjar, Fs. (in a verse); til strengjar, Grág. ii. 399; gékk í sundr akkeris-strengrinn … hann kafaði eptir strengnum, Fs. 92; rann á blásandi byrr svá at stóð á hverjum streng, Fas. iii. 630; hann lét þekja sundit ok bera strengi á land, Nj. 273; at skip þeirra hafi eigi rúm, ok eigi liggi skip á strengjum þeirra, N. G. L. ii. 281; höfðu þeir þá strengja-raun mikla, Fms. ii. 16.
3. spec. usages, a bow-string (boga-strengr); brast strengr, en ör sú er skotið var …, Fms. i. 182; boga ok streng á, N. G. L. ii. 41; boga-strengr, Nj. 115, 116: the string of an instrument, strengir gullu, Og. 30; glumdu strengir, Akv. 31; drepa strengi, Stj. 458; þann streng hafði hann ekki fyrr slegit, Fas. iii. 223; harpa strengja rúin, Núm. (fine): of a bell-rope, Hom. 69: buxna-strengr, the cord round the top of a pair of breeches.
4. a narrow channel of water; áin rennr í streng, the river flows in a narrow channel.
COMPDS: strengjaferja, strengjalauss.

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