ÞÖN

(gen. þanar, pl. þanir), f. tenter, stretcher (þeir tóku gærur af þönum).

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f., gen. þanar, pl. þanir, [þenja], a scaffold or platform on stakes, on which nets and the like are stretched out for drying; þeir tóku gærur af þönum, Sturl. iii. 189; Loka lögvélar (i. e. the net) leika á þönum, Egilsson’s rendering of the verse in Herodotus i. 62; the word is freq.