Grindan

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

grindan

Add: I. to grind corn in a mill :-- Tuoege biðon grindas (grundas, R.) duae erunt molentes, Lk. L. 17, 35. Hí héton hine (Samson) grindan æt hira handcwyrne, Jud. 16, 21. Þá hé ne myhte úte wyrcan, þá wolde hé grindan mid his hálgum hondum ... Ðá hé þǽre cweorna neálǽhte, and ꝥ corn þǽr on lægde, þá orn seó cweorn, Shrn. 145, 21. Gif hió grindende þeówa sió, Ll. Th. i. 6, 6. I a. of the action of the teeth :-- Molides ... wé hǽteð grindigtéþ, fore hý grindeþ æl ꝥ man byg leofaþ, Lch. iii. 104, 3. II. to grind, crush, oppress :-- Eliquat, ... minuit, depremit vel grint, Wrt. Voc. ii. 143, 5. III. to scrape or rub against something :-- Wǽgas grundon, An. 373. grindan