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§387;
Substitute:
a blow, stroke
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  • Slóh hine án heora mid ánre æxe ýre on þet heáfod, þet hé mid þám dynte niðer ásáh,

      Chr. 1012; P. 142, 24.

  • Án ðára ðegna salde dynt (

    alapam

    ) ðǽm
      Hǽlende, Jn. R. L. 18, 22.

  • Ðone dynt

    ictum (securis ),

      Past. 339, 15.

  • Be ðám ðe nán óðrum dynt ne gebeóde

    ut non presumat aliquis alium cedere,

      R. Ben. 129, 12.

  • Mistlice þreála gebyriað for synnum, bendas oððe dyntas,

      Ll. Th. ii. 278, 26.

  • Ðǽr is benda bite and dynta dyne,

      Wlfst. 209, 17: 114, 23.

  • Hí habbað sweopan, swenga ne wyrnað, deórra dynta,

      Sal. 122.

  • Mid fýstum ł dyntum geslaa

    colaphis caedere,

      Mk. L. 14, 65.

  • Dyntas

    alapas,

      Jn. L. 19, 3.
  • Martianus hét his cwelleras þone hálgan beátan mid saglum ... Ðá cwæð Martianus ... 'Ðú þás dyntas náht ne gefrétst,' Hml. S. 4, 147.
mark made by a blow, bruise
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  • Gif man óðerne mid fýste in naso slæhð, .iii. scill. Gif dynt sié, scilling. Gif hé heáhre handa dyntes onféhð, scill. forgelde. Gif dynt sweart sié búton wǽdum .xxx. scætta gebéte. Gif hit sié binnan wǽdum, gehwilc .xx. scætta gebéte if a man strike another on the nose, a fine of three shillings. If there is a mark, a shilling. If the person struck get a bruise (or blow?) on an arm raised for protection (?),

    a shilling must be paid. If the bruise be black in a part not covered by clothes, there shall be a fine of thirty scatts. If it be in a part covered by clothes, for each bruise there shall be a fine of twenty scatts,

      Ll. Th. i. 16, 17-18, 5.
the sound made by a blow, thud of a body striking the ground
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  • Swíþe oft se micla anweald ðára yfelena gehríst swíþe fǽrlíce, swá swá greát beám on wyda wyrcþ hlúdne dynt (

    strikes the ground with a loud thud

    ), ðonne men lǽst wénaþ,
      Bt. 38, 2; F. 198, 9.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “dynt.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/43155.

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