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þryccan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
þryccan, p. þrycte, þryhte; pp. þrycced, þryht.
Wright's OE grammar
§534;
Grammar
þryccan, trans.
To press, crush, oppress, repress, trample
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  • Sittaþ mánfulle on heáhsetlum and hálige under heora fótum þryccaþ

    perversi resident celso mores solio, sanctaque calcant colla,

    • Bt. 4
      • ;
    • Fox 8, 14: Met. 4, 38.

  • Ðæt sió manung hié ne ðrycte

    ne admonitio eos concuteret,

    • Past. 32
      • ;
    • Swt. 213, 22.

  • Ða gástas ðe mé swenctan and ðrycton

    qui me premebant spiritus,

    • Bd. 3, 11
      • ;
    • S. 536, 37.

  • Ðrycce se magister ða belde

    reprimatur praecipitatio,

    • Past. 61
      • ;
    • Swt. 455, 21.

  • Swá hié se stán and seó eorþe þrycce,

    • Blickl. Homl. 75, 9.

  • Hé mid wédenheortnesse módes ðrycced wæs

    mentis vesania premebatur,

    • Bd. 2, 5
      • ;
    • S. 507, 4.

  • Untrumnesse ðrycced and hefigod

    infirmitate pressus,

    • 4, 24
      • ;
    • S. 598, 25.
Grammar
þryccan, intrans.
To press, force a way
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  • Wé ðás wíc magun fótum áfyllan; folc in ðriceþ meara þreátum and monfarum,

    • Exon. Th. 119, 18
      • ;
    • Gú. 256.
Etymology
[He wænde mid his crucche us adun þrucche,
  • Laym. 19483.
Þre at þe fyrst þrast he þryȝt to þe erþe,
  • Gaw. 1443.
A þral þryȝt in þe þrong,
  • Allit. Pms. 42, 135.
To thrutch is still used in some dialects; see E. D. S. Pub. Lancashire and Cheshire Glossaries, where see also thrutchings = whey squeezed out whilst the cheese is under pressure.
O. H. Ger. drucchen premere, comprimere.
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v. bi-, ge-, of-, on-þryccan.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “þryccan.” 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/32160.

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