dráf
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Verb
Verb Class: Participle
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dráf
drove, Chr. 1099; Ing. 318, 16;
p. of drífan.
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210 of the Main Volume of the paper dictionary.
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:- Bosworth, Joseph. "dráf." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth. Ed. Thomas Northcote Toller. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898. 21.
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dráf
, drǽf. Add :-- Hét se hálga wer þæt seó cú gewende tó þǽre heorde, and heó swá bilewite swá scép beáh tó þǽre drǽfe, Hml. S. 31, 1055. Se geneát sceal láde lǽdan, dráfe drífan, C. D. iii. 450, 33. Sum fearhrýþer þæs óþræs' ceápes geférscipe oferhogode . . . Hé þæs hyrdes dráfe forhogode and him on þ̵ wésten gewunode, Bl. H. 199, 7. [Add to passage from Hml. Th. i. 502, 10, cf. hwí se fearr his heorde forsáwe, 17.]
dráf
. I. driving. Take here Hml. Th. i. 502, 10 in Dict., and Bl. H. 199, 7. ¶ the phrase dráfe drífan, C.D. iii. 450, 33, seems to refer to the transport of the lord's goods by vehicle which the geneát had to 'drive'. Cf. drífan; III. and see lád. II. a drove [v. N.E.D. drove; I 3.], a road :-- Of ðám hlince andlang dráfæ, C.D. v. 217, 6.
