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cyrf

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Substitute: cyrf, es; m.
a cutting, act of cutting
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  • Notige se abbod cyrfes and mid ísene þone uncoðan áceorfe

    abba utatur ferro abscisionis,

      R. Ben. 52, 19. 'Ælc treów ðe ne wyrcð gódne wæstm bið forcirfen.' . . . Be ðisum cyrfe spræc se Hǽlend, Hml. Th. ii. 406, 33. v. of-, ymb-cyrf.
what is cut off
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  • Tódál ł cyrf

    comma,

      An. Ox. 18 b, 9.
  • v. æ-cyrf in Dict., where read ǽ-cyrf, es; m.
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[v. N. E. D. kerf.]
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  • cyrf, n.