Hand-bæftian
Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon de Bosworth & Toller - hand-bæftian
Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :
-beaftan, -beoftan;
- hand-bæftian
- p. -bæftade, -beafte To beat with the hands as an expression of grief[?], to lament :-- Ða ðe gemǽndon and hondbæftadon quæ plangebant et lamantabantur, Lk. Skt. Lind. 23, 27. Wé hondbeafton lamentavimus, 7, 32. [Cf. apon þair brestes fast þai beft, Met. Homl. xviii.]