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screádian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
screádian, p. ode
To shred, cut up or off, pare, (of trees) to prune
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  • Búton ða láreówas screádian ða leahtras þurh heora láre áweg, ne biþ ðæt lǽwede folc wæstmbǽre,

      Homl. Th. ii. 74, 16.
  • Ðá hét hé (

    Herod) him his seax árǽcan tó screádigenne (cf. æppelscreáda quisquiliae )

    ǽnne æppel, i.
      88, 9.
Etymology
[He (Herod) badd himm brinngenn ænne cnif An appell forr to shrædenn. Orm. 8118. Scradieð eower sceldes al of þe smal enden, Laym. 5866. Wortes or othere herbes . . . she shredde and seeth, Chauc. Cl. T. 227. Cf. He shred (concidit) the wild gourds into the pot of pottage, 2 Kings iv. 39. Schredyn̄ or schragge trees sarculo, sarmento; schredyn̄ wortys or oþer herbys detirso, Prompt. Parv. 448. O. Du. schrooden: O. H. Ger. scrótan ; p. screot demere, tondere: Ger. schroten to cut, gnaw.]
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