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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-, related to hjalt, hildr, holt.
Noun
hlunnr m (genitive hlunns, plural hlunnar)
- a roller for launching and drawing up ships
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hlunnr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive