(a) To shatter (sth.), crush, break to pieces; (b) to perforate (sth.); make (a hole); (c) to crack (sth.), fill with cracks; also, become cracked; (d) ppl. crasing as adj., liable to crack or craze.
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(a) To dig in or excavate earth with a mattock, spade, or other tool; ?also, dig with the fingers; diggen aboute, diggen under; (b) to dig up or excavate (earth); (c) to dig up (a field, balks) for……
(a) To create (a knight); confer knighthood on (sb.); give the accolade to (sb.); also, beat (sb.) [1st quot.]; neudubbed, of a knight: newly created; (b) dubben (to) knight, to make (sb.) a knight……
(a) To lead or guide (sb.); also fig.; refl. to take one's way, go; (b) to steer (a ship), steer (one's course); drive (a chariot); (c) to guide (someone's pen or stylus); --used fig.; of Fortune: to……
(a) To deceive (sb.), beguile; delude, dupe; be false to, betray; --also without obj.; also fig.; (b) ppl. as noun: giling, those who cheat or deceive; giled, those who are deceived or cheated; (c) to……
(a) To strike (sb.); girden at, aim a blow at (sb.); girden on, rain (blows) on (sb.); (b) girden abak, to drive (sb.) back with blows, repel; girden al to poudre, beat (sb.) to dust; girden doun……
(a) To drag or pull (sb. or sth.) from one place or position to another; haul; (b) to draw up (sth.), raise; halen up; (c) to draw (an arrow); halen to the hokes, draw back the release-catches of a……
(a) To pillage (a place), plunder (a house, town, country, etc.); rob (sb.); also, plunder (in a place), go pillaging; herien and brennen, pillage and burn, ravage; herien up, ravage (a country); (b)……
(a) To injure (sb., a part of the body), wound, hurt; afflict (sb.) with disease [quot.: WB(1), Pecock]; of hunger: to pain (sb.); ben hurt, be wounded or injured; -- also intr.; (b) to receive an……
To sift (grain); also, fig. test (sb.); -- also without obj.; spread (ashes) by means of sifting; -- used without obj.; ridelen oute of, separate (sb.) from (God's chosen).
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(a) To rob, plunder, steal; (b) to plunder (lands, a house), ransack, pillage; rifle (bags); destroy (a city); (c) to rob (sb.); despoil (the dead); riflen of, rob (sb.) of (sth.); riflen route, fig.……
(a) To throw (sb. or sth., esp. into a place or in a specified direction), hurl, fling; also, fell (an adversary) in battle; also, raze (a city); slingen abouten, swing (sb.) around; slingen doun……
To sob; snobben and sighen, sighen and snobben; snobben after, weep in longing for (sth.); ppl.snobbinge, sobbing; also, accompanied by sobs [quot. a1450 Aelred, 2nd].
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