feaxfang

Old English

Etymology

From feax (“hair”) +‎ fōn (“to seize”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæ͜ɑksˌfɑnɡ/, [ˈfæ͜ɑksˌfɑŋɡ]

Noun

feaxfang m

1. the crime of seizing someone by the hair
   • Laws of King Æthelberht

     Ġif feaxfang ġeweorþ, L sċeatta tō bōte.

     If hair-seizing should occur, the recompense shall be fifty sceattas.

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “feax-fang”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.