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torr

  • noun [ masculine ]
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torr, es; m.
from Latin turris, a tower; the native word is
stípel; q. v.
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  • Ðíin nosu is suelc se torr (

    turris

    ) on Liuano ðæm munte,
      Past. 11; Swt. 65, 24: Exon. Th. 266, 23; Jul. 402.

  • Tor,

      Ps. Th. 60, 2: Exon. Th. 180, 26; Gú. 1285.

  • Ðá hét hire fæder hí bewyrcean on ánum torre mid twelf ðeówennum,

      Shrn. 105, 33.

  • Æt torre

    at the tower (of Babel ),

      Cd. Th. 101, 26; Gen. 1688.

  • Tó beácne torr,

      100, 19; Gen. 1666: Bt. 25, 4; Fox 162, 25.

  • Monn getimberde torr (

    turrem

    ),
      Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 12, 1.

  • Torr (tor,

      Rush.), Lk. Skt. Lind. 14, 28.

  • Ástág Simon on ðone torr,

      Blickl. Homl. 187, 27.

  • Hát ðú mé ánne heáhne tor of mycclum beámum getimbrian,

      183, 3.

  • Hrófas sind gehrorene, hreórge torras,

      Exon. Th. 476, 6; Ruin. 3: Andr. Kmbl. 1684; An. 844.

  • Ceastre and torras (

    farus;

    v. fýr-torr) and stréta and brycge geworhte wǽron,
      Bd. 1, 11; S. 480, 16.

  • Mid ceastrum ða ðe wǽron mid weallum and torrum (

    turribus

    ) and geatum getimbrade,
      1, 1; S. 473, 28: Ps. Th. 47, 11: 121, 7.

  • On ðæs sǽs waroþe tó súþdǽle ðanon ðe hí sciphere on becom [hí] torras (

    turres

    ) timbredon tó gebeorhge ðæs sǽs,
      Bd. 1, 12; S. 481, 11.

  • Ða torras and ða scylfas on him bǽron ða elpendas,

      Nar. 4, 16.
  • O. Frs. thoer: O. H. Ger. turri, turra turris.] Cf. túr.
from Celtic,
a projecting rock, a tor
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  • Torr

    scopulus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 38, 20.

  • Óð him (the brook) oninnan felþ muntes mægenstán átrendlod of ðæm torre (cf. micel stán wealwiende of ðam heáhan munte, Bt. 6; Fox 14, 29)

    resistit rupe soluti objice saxi,

      Met. 5, 17.

  • Ǽrest on mercecumb (

    in Dorset

    ), ðonne on grénan pytt, ðonne on ðone torr æt mercecumbes ǽwielme,
      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 28, 32.

  • On gyran torr (

    in Devon

    ), iii.
      412, 9.

  • An horsa tor . . . on lytlan tor (

    in Devon

    ),
      Cod. Dip. B. iii. 133, 10, 11.

  • Stánrocca, torra

    scopulorum,

      Hpt. Gl. 449, 15.

  • Torra

    scopulorum,

      499, 68.

  • Cf. Heáhtorra

    alpium, montium,

      454, 42. v.
    fýr-, geat-, heáh-, mere-, seoh-, stán-torr.
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v.  tor túr.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “torr.” 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/30816.

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