Laski

Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "laski"

Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:

Fornnordiskt ord laski kan betyda:laski

laski

a, m. a flaw, fissure in wood.

laski

II. the wrist-piece of a gauntlet beneath the thumb, (opp. to ló or lóð = the finger part); the phrase, á ló og laski! The foreman of a fishing-boat divides the catch of fish into two heaps, then throws a glove between these heaps, and turning his face away shouts, á ló og laski! whereupon each man of the crew has, in his turn, to choose either the ló or the laski, and take his share according to the side to which the laski or the ló points.

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