(a) To strike (sb.); ~ at, aim a blow at (sb.); ~ on, rain (blows) on (sb.); (b) ~ abak, to drive (sb.) back with blows, repel; ~ al to poudre, beat (sb.) to dust; ~ doun, fell (sb.) with a blow or blows; beat down or overturn (a wall); ~ out, knock (teeth) out; cut (sth.) off so that it is hurled to a distance; ~ over, knock (sth.) over, overturn; ~ to (on, unto) ground, knock (sb.) to the ground, fell; ~ to deth, kill (sb.) with blows; (c) to spur (a horse); ~ to, put the spurs to (a horse).

(a) To cut or sever (sth.), cut (with a sword, etc.); ~ atwo, ~ in two, cut (sb. or sth.) in two; ~ of, cut off (the head, a bone, etc.); fig. ~ fro, cut (sb.) off from (his rights); (b) to thrust (one's arm into sth.); ~ out, thrust out (someone's guts); ~ thurgh, pierce (sb. or sth.), stab.

(a) To rush, charge, plunge, fall; ~ togedere, rush together, encounter violently; ~ up, leap up, climb up hastily; comen girding, come charging; (b) of ground, rain: to fall, drop, sink; of fire: rush; of a flower: fall, wither; also fig.; ~ out, of a stench: rush out; of a wound: gush blood.

(a) To hurl (stones), cast; fig. ~ on wordes, hurl words, assail with words; (b) ~ up, to throw up (sth.), vomit; (c) ~ out to greten, to burst out weeping, begin to weep.