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rendan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
rendan, p. de
To rend, tear, cut
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  • Óðre ða twigu gibégdun ł rendun (rindon, Lind.) ða telge of ðǽm tréum

    alii frondes caedebant ab arboribus,

      Mk. Skt. Rush. 11, 8.
  • Ceorfas ł rendas (hrendas, Lind.)

    succidite,

      Lk. Skt. Rush. 13, 7.
Etymology
[Scipen gunnen helden bosmes þer rendden, Laym. 7849. Heo haueð bipiled mine figer, irend of al þe rinde decorticauit ficum meam, A. R. 148, 23. Þe reue rende his clades, Jul. 70, 7. O. Frs. renda to tear; rend a rent.]
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v. tó-rendan.
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