(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 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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