Tó-ceorfan

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

tó-ceorfan

p. -cearf, pl. -curfon ; pp. -corfen. I. to cut to pieces, -cut in two, cut up :-- Hé tócearf his basing on emtwá mid sexe, Homl. Th. ii. 500, 26. Hí tócurfon ðone líchaman on manugu sticceo, Shrn. 125, 10. Ða langnysse tóceorfan on pysena gelícnysse, Lchdm. i. 260, 15. Rammes lungen smæl tócorfen, 356, 21. Tócorfen lacerata. Wrt. Voc. ii. 53, 32. Þeáh ðe se beám beó tócoruen, H. R. 105, 15. II. to cut off :-- Tócearf him ða eárelipprica amputavit illi auricula, Mk. Skt. Lind. 14, 47. [Til he wyste who couþe uche kyndam tokerve, Allit. Pms. 88, 1700. O. Frs. tó-kerva to-ceorfan