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heáwan

  • verb
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Wright's OE grammar
§76; §172; §264; §518;
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  • Heáweð

    secate,

    • An. Ox. 56, 32.
intrans.
To strike with a cutting weapon, deal blows
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  • Hí on healfa gehwone heáwan þóhton,

    • B. 800
      • .
trans.
To strike forcibly with a cutting weapon, to hack, gash
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  • Me

    (Christ)

    on beáme beornas sticedon gárum on galgum, heów se giunga þǽr

    (cf. unus militum lancea latus eius aperuit,

    • Jn. 19, 34
      • ),
    • Sat. 511
      • .

  • Hine heówon hǽðene scealcas and bégen þá beornas þe him big stódon,

    • By. 181
      • .

  • Hí heówan heaþolinde hamora láfan,

    • Chr. 937
      • ;
    • P. 106, 14
      • .

  • Ðeáh þe láðra fela ðínne byrnhomon billum heówan,

    • Vald. 1, 17
      • .
to shape with a cutting implement,
  • Bd. 4, 11
    • ;
  • Sch. 407, 21
    • (in Dict.).
to hew, fell wood
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  • Hí slógon þá crístenan . . . swá swá mann wudu hýwð,

    • Hml. S. 28, 69
      • .
to cut off, sever a part from the whole by a blow:
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  • Sume heówun (caedebant) þǽra treówa bógas,

    • Txts 21, 8.
to form by hewing
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  • Deórhege heáwan,

    • Ll. Th. i. 432, 15
      • :
    • Angl. ix. 262, 8
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “heáwan.” 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/52111.

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