pistolræding
Old English
Etymology
Compound of pistol (“epistle”) + rǣding (“reading”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpis.tolˌræː.dinɡ/, [ˈpis.tolˌræː.diŋɡ]
Noun
pistolrǣding f
- a lesson delivered in a church service
References
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “pistol-rǽding”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.