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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 maesse*-*preóst 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. ge*-*bróðor,

      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.
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  • turf, n.