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torfung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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torfung, e; f.
a throwing of stones, stoning
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  • Ðæt hine (

    a slave who had absconded

    ) man lǽdde tó ðære torfunge,
      L. Ath. v. 6, 3; Th. i. 234, 8.
  • Cf. Si fur servus homo sit, eant sexaginta et viginti servi et lapident eum, iii. 6; Th. i. 219,

      13. v. Grmm. R. A. 693.
a throwing, casting, hurling
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  • Hié his wǽran swíðe ehtende ge mid scotum ge mid stána torfungum,

      Ors. 5, 9; Swt. 134, 16.
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  • torfung, n.