A-sleán

According to the Old English Dictionary:

a-sleán

p. -slóh, pl. -slógon; pp. -slegen, -slagen, -slægen To strike, beat, hammer, to fix, erect; ferire, icere, cædere, figere, ponere :-- On býman aslegenum [Lamb. onaslagenum], Ps. Spl. 97, 6; in tubis ducti-libus, Vulg; in trumpis beten out, Wyc. Hí aslógan án geteld tetende-runt tentorium, Bd. 3, 17; S. 543, 33, col. 1 : 5, 6 ; S. 619, 26. Ðe of his líchoman aslegen wæs that was struck off his body, Bd. 3, 12 ; S. 537, 34. pp. on-aslagen. a-slean

Related words: sleán. DER. on-asleán;