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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.
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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.
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v. fýr-, geat-, heáh-, mere-, seoh-, stán-torr.
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v.  tor túr.
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