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earh-faru

  • noun [ feminine ]
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earh-faru, e; f. [earh an arrow; faru a going, journey, passage]
A flight of arrows; sagittārum vŏlātus
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  • Habbaþ scearp speru, atole earhfare

    they have sharp spears, a terrible flight of arrows,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 259
    • ;
    • Sal. 129
    • .
  • Mid earhfare

    with a flight of arrows,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 2097
    • ;
    • An. 1050
    • .
  • Ða us gescildaþ wið sceððendra eglum [MS englum] earhfarum

    they shall shield us against the enemies' noxious flights of arrows,

    • Exon. 19 a
    • ;
    • Th. 47,
    • 28;
    • Cri. 762
    • .
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v.  earg-faru.
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