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tó-ceorfan

  • verb [ strong ]
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tó-ceorfan, p. -cearf, pl. -curfon ; pp. -corfen.
Wright's OE grammar
§656;
to cut to pieces, -cut in two, cut up
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  • Hé tócearf his basing on emtwá mid sexe, Homl.

    Th.

    ii.
      500, 26.
  • Hí tócurfon ðone líchaman on manugu sticceo,

      Shrn. 125, 10.
  • Ða langnysse tóceorfan on pysena gelícnysse,

      Lchdm. i. 260, 15.
  • Rammes lungen smæl tócorfen,

      356, 21.
  • Tócorfen

    lacerata.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 53, 32.
  • Þeáh ðe se beám beó tócoruen,

      H. R. 105, 15.
to cut off
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  • Tócearf him ða eárelipprica

    amputavit illi auricula,

      Mk. Skt. Lind. 14, 47. [Til he wyste who couþe uche kyndam tokerve, Allit. Pms. 88, 1700. O. Frs. tó-kerva
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