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to cut up, cut asunder
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  • Hé gelæhte his sex and forcearf his basing ... þá hlógon his geféran þæs forcorfenan basinges,

    • Hml. S. 31, 69-72
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  • Heó wæs forcorfen on middan on twá styccu

    per medium secabatur,

    • Gr. D. 340, 20
    • .
to cut off, out, away
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  • Hió forcearf

    sapientia excidit (columnas septem),

    • Kent. Gl. 284
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  • Hí his eáran forcurfon.

    • Hml. S. 21, 268.
  • Heó bæd ꝥ hí hyre fæx forcurfon,

    • 2, 50
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  • Hé hét forceorfan his tungan ... and his handa forceorfan,

    • 25, 115
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  • Heora ǽlces sweordfǽtelsas hé hét forceorfan,

    • 23, 178.
  • Croppas forceorfende

    racemos succidens .i. praecidens,

    • An. Ox. 2642
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  • Hé ðone læppan forcorfenne hæfde,

    • Past. 199, 17.
  • Swá swá ðæt treów ðe ðá wyrtruman beóð færcorfene (for-, v. l.) forseárað, swá hié magon ondrǽdan ðæt him weorðen ðá wyrttruman færcorfene (for-, v. l.),

    • 339, 19
    • .
to cut down
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  • Forcorfen

    succisa (arbor),

    • An. Ox. 1578
    • .
to deprive by cutting of (dat.)
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  • Sume wǽron handum and fótum forcorfene

    some had their hands and feet cut off,

    • Hml. Th. i. 542, 32.
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[v.
N. E. D. forcarve.
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