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turf

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
turf, gen.dat.tyrf ; pl. tyrf and turf; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§108; §298; §411;
a turf, sod, piece of earth with grass on it
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  • Turf

    gleba,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 20.

  • Ðeós wyrt of ánre tyrf manega bógas ásendeþ,

    • Lchdm. i. 290, 7.

  • Hí ða flaxan gehýddon under ánre tyrf,

    • Guthl. 15
      • ;
    • Gdwin. 64, 16.

  • Under áne (ánre?) tyrf,

    • 23.

  • Ne turf ne toft

    not a sod nor a field (i. e. neither little nor much?)

    ,
    • Lchdm. iii. 286, 23.

  • Tyrb

    cespites,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 69.

  • Tyrf,

    • 23, 18:

    glebe,

    • 40, 37.

  • Genim feówer tyrf on feówer healfa ðæs landes . . . drýpe on ðone staðol ðara turfa . . . bere ða turf tó circean and maessepreóst ásinge feówer mæssan ofer ðan turfon, and wende man ðæt gréne tó ðan weofode, and siþþan gebringe man ða turf ðǽr hí ǽr wǽron . . . Nim ðonne ða turf and sete ðǽr ufon on,

    • Lchdm. i. 398, 4-24.

  • Turfum

    glebulis,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 36: 80, 32.

  • Turvum

    glebulis, cespitibus,

    • Hpt. Gl. 470, 35.

  • Ðá gewrohte hé weall mid turfum (cf. vallum . . . de cespitibus,Bd. 1, 5),

    • Chr. 189
      • ;
    • Erl. 9, 25.

  • On tyrf

    in cespites,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 48, 16.

  • Ða wæstmbǽre tyrf

    feraces glebas,

    • 147, 51.
turf, greensward, the grassy surface of the earth
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  • Blówendre tyrf

    florei cespitis,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 50.

  • Sum stán mid ðynre tyrf bewrigen

    lapis obtectus cespite tenui,

    • Bd. 5, 6
      • ;
    • S. 619, 20.

  • Wæter wynsumu of ðære moldan tyrf brecaþ,

    • Exon. Th. 202, 8
      • ;
    • Ph. 66.

  • Of ðisse eorþan tyrf,

    • 222, 15
      • ;
    • Ph. 349: 423, 21
      • ;
    • Rä. 41, 25.

  • Ic seah turf tredan .vi. gebróðor,

    • 394, 10
      • ;
    • Rä. 14, 1.
Etymology
[
O. Frs. O. L. Ger. turf
:
O. H. Ger. zurba cespes, terra avulsa
:
Icel. torf; n.; torfa; f. a turf, turf.
]
Similar entries
v. éðel-, wang-turf; torfian.
Linked entries
v.  tyrf.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “turf.” 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/31171.

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  • turf, n.

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