Fore-steall (for-)
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fore-steall (for-)
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- fore-steall (for-)
- Add: (1) prevention, hindrance to free progress:--Færð fýr ofer eall, ne byð þǽr nán foresteal, ne him man náne mægmiht forwyrnan ignis ubique suis ruptis regnabit habenis, Dóm. L. 146. (2) fine for the crime of fore-steall. in Dict.:--Ic hæbbe geunnen him ꝥ hé beó his saca and sócne wyrðe, . . . and forstealles, Cht. E. 233, 3. [v. N. E. D. forestall; sb. cf. O. L. Ger. fora-stelli constipatio.] fore-steall for-