Corepan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - corepan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

corepan
p. scræp, pl. scrǽpon; pp. screpen To scrape, scratch:--Scriopu scalpio, Txts. 97, 1828. Scripið, scripith, scribid scarpinat, 95, 1805. Screpes scratches (? the word glosses arescit. But generally later English forms seem to represent a verb scrapian. Cf. Icel. skrapa: O. Du. schrapen:--Heo schulden schreapien þe eorðe up of hore putte, A. R. 116, 15. Al þet scrift ne schreapeð nout of, 344, 13. Shame shrapeth his clothes, Piers P. 11, 423. Scrapyn (shrapyn) awey abrado; scrapyn (schrapyn) scalpo, scalpito, Prompt. Parv. 450.] v. á-, be-screpan. corepan

Related words: scrípan), Mk. Skt. Rush. 9, 18. Screp ðæt blód of, Lchdm. ii. 262, 6: 38, 20. [Þet he screpe zennes of al of oure herten, Ayenb. 98, 19.

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