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  • Ic út ádelfe

    effodio,

      Ælfc. Gr. 179, 11.
to dig, dig out a pit
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  • Hé ádylfð ðone pytt

    lacum effodit,

      Ps. Th. 7, 15. Also v. Dict.
to dig up the ground
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  • Hí ádulfon gehwylcne dǽl þæs wyrtgeardes þæs þe þǽr ǽr undolfen wæs

    cuncta horti illius spatia quae inculta fuerant coluerunt,

      Gr. D. 202, 3.
  • Seó eorðe wæs swíðe heard and hé ne mihte heó ádelfan,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 768.
to dig up a plant
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  • Ádelf niþerweardne sláhðorn,

      Lch. ii. 92, 30: 230, 6.
  • Ádelfe ompran,

      78, 1.
to dig out, pick out
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  • Up ádelfað

    effodiant (oculum corvi ),

      Kent. Gl. 1092.
  • Ǽlcne pocc man sceall áweg ádelfan mid þorne,

      Lch. ii. 106, 4.
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v.  a-dylf.
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