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þrúh

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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Grammar
þrúh, (also þrýh, Bd. S. 580, 14); gen. dat. þrýh, and dat. þrúh; f.: dat. þrúge; m. n.
Wright's OE grammar
§139; §411;
Wood or stone hollowed out.
a trough, pipe, conduit
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  • Ðrúh, thruuch, thruch

    tubo,

    • Txts. 103, 2067.
  • Þrúh vel mylentroh

    canalis.

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 128, 16.
  • Of þrýh ł þeótan

    tubo,

    • Hpt. Gl. 418, 61.
  • Of ðam bróce in ðæt þrúh; of ðam þrúge,

    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 380, 3.
  • Ðá gesomnodon ða sticceo hí in ða þrúh, þurh ða ðe ðæt wæter fleów; ðá ne meahte ðæt wæter flówan,

    • Shrn. 125, 12.
a box, chest
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  • Fiscella spyrte ł þrúh,

    • Germ. 400, 492.
a coffin, sarcophagus, tomb
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  • Þrúh

    sarcofagum,

    • Wrt. Voc, i. 49, 28.
  • Ðúrh,

    • 85, 78.
  • Ðrúh oððe ofergeweorc

    mausoleum,

    • 85, 76.
  • Ðá gearwodan hí his líchoman tó bebyrigeanne on stǽnenre ðrúh (byrgenne stǽnenne ðrúh, MS. T.) ... ðá wæs se líchoma sponne lengra ðære ðrýh (ðonne seó ðrýh, MS. B.) ... Hí tóætýcton lengeo ðære ðrýh ... Ðá ðóhton hí ðæt hí óþre ðrýh (ðúrh, MS. B.) sóhton ... Ðá wæs seó ðrýh (þrúh, Bd. M. 296, 28) geméted gerisenlícre lengo ... seó ðrúh wæs ðam líchonian lengre

    cujus corpori tumulando praeparaveratit sarcofagum lapideum ... invenerunt hoc mensura palmi longius esse sarcofago ... addiderunt longitudini sarcofagi cogitabant aliud quaerere loculum ... Inventum est sarcofagum illud congruae longitudinis,

    • Bd. 4, 11
    • ;
    • S. 580, 3-14.
  • Wæs him ðrúh ( loculus ) gegearwod,

    • 5, 5
    • ;
    • S. 617, 39.
  • Ðá stód on ðære stówe sum stǽnen ðrúh ... Ðá lédon ða þegenas ðone Hǽlend ðǽron ... Hí ða ðrúh geinnsegelodon,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 262, 1-11.
  • Þréh

    sarcophagi,

    • Hpt. Gl. 499, 58.
  • Of þríh

    de tumba,

    • 450, 73.
  • Se engel áwylte ðæt hlid of ðære ðrýh... Crist mihte, belocenre ðríh, faran of middangearde,

    • Homl. Th. i. 222, 8-13.
  • Hí gemétton níwe ðrúh of marmanstáne on cyrcan wíson gesceapene ... Æt ðære hálgan þrýh sind getíðode heofonlíce lácnunga,

    • 564, 19-31.
  • On eallhwítre ðrýh of marmstáne geworht,

    • Cod. Dip. Knibl. iii. 60, 21.
  • Of ðære stǽnenan þrýh ðe stent wiðinnan,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 21, 22.
  • On treówene ðrúh

    ligneo in locello,

    • Bd. 4,19
    • ;
    • S. 588, 21, 25, 31, 34.
  • On ða stǽnenan ðrúh

    in sarcophago,

    • S. 589, 40.
  • Ða ðúrh ( loculum ) be him gesett,

    • 5, 5
    • ;
    • S. 618, 6.
  • Hí his líc gedydon on þrúh,

    • Blickl. Homl. 191, 33: Guthl. 20
    • ;
    • Gdwin. 84, 7, 14.
  • Hé worhte áne ðrúh on hwítum seolfre tó ðæra apostola líce,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 498, 3.
¶ The word seems left in local names, Thrubrook, Througham, v.
  • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 342.
Etymology
[Me leið þene licome in þere þruh,
  • O. E. Homl. i. 51, 5.
Strikeð a stream ut of ꝥ stanene þruh (de sepulchro),
  • Kath. 2480.
Ine stonene þruh biclused ... þeos þruh,
  • A. R. 378, 12: Misc. 51, 511.
In throghes in sepulcris,
  • Ps. 67, 7.
Thurhwe stone, throwe or throwstone sarcofagus,
  • Prompt. Parv. 493.
A thrughe mauseolum,
  • Cath. Angl. 386,
and see note there.
Icel. þró; f. a trough; stein-þró a stone coffin.
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v. wæter-þrúh.
Linked entries
v.  þrýh.
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