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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
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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.
Schredyn or schragge trees sarculo, sarmento; schredyn ortys or oþer herbys detirso, Prompt. Parv. 448.
O. Du. schrooden
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O. H. Ger. scrótan; p. screot demere, tondere
:
Ger. schroten to cut, gnaw.
]
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v. á-, gescreádian, and next word.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “screádian.” 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/27005.

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