- vatta
- (að), v. to grasp with gloves.* * *að, [vega], to lift; er þú vattar streng, Lv. 100; hence the mod. járn-hatta, qs. járn-vatta, to lift (a heavy thing) above one’s head, holding it with straight arms, eg járn-hattaði hann.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.