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to throw, cast
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  • Mann hæfð inngang swá micelre brǽdo swá man mæg mid liþeran geweorpan habet ingressum amplitudinis quasi iactus fundae, Bd. 4, 13; Sch. 421, 16. Ia. where the direction or end of throwing is marked :-- Hé beheóld huu ðe here giwarp óset mæslen on gazophilaciutn and monige weolge giwurpun feolu

    aspiciebat quomodo turba iactaret aes in gazophilacium, et multi diuites iactabant multa,

      Mk. R. 12, 41.

  • Ꝥte sé geworpen in sǽ

    proiciatur in mare,

      Lk. L. R. 17, 2.

  • Ꝥ salt bið geworpen út

    mittatur foras,

      Mt. L. 5, 13.

  • Geworpene

    iactari (in ardentes thermarum vapores),

      An. Ox. 4781.
where a change of position is caused by force,
to cast in or out
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  • Gewarpp ðá bibyccenda

    ejicit vendenles,

      Mt. p. 18, 17.

  • Of ðǽr gewarp

    (eiecerat)

    seofa diówles,
      Mk. L. R. 16, 9.

  • Hine gewurpon ł fordrifon búta ðǽm wíngeard,

      Mt. L. 21, 39.

  • Gif égo ðín geondspornað ðec geworp (

    eice

    ) hine,
      Mk. L. R. 9, 47.

  • Ðú gesiist geworpe ðone mot,

      Mt. L. 7, 5.

  • Geworpa diówblas,

      Lk. L. R. 11, 18.

  • III. where an object is moved to a position of rest, to lay :-- Hæfdon mid him dumbo, blindo . . . and geworpen (lægdun, R. ,

    projecertini)

    hiá tó fótum his,
      Mt. L. 15, 30.

  • Honda geworpun

    (injecerunt)

    on ðone
      Hǽlend, 26, 50.
to reach by throwing, throw and catch
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  • Se lytega feónd ðæs ǽrestan monnes mod gewearp mid synne gríne

    hostis callidus primi hominis sensum in peccati laqueo strinxit,

      Past. 309, 18.
Etymology
[Goth, ga-wairpan : O. H. Ger. ge-werfan.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-weorpan.” 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/50443.

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