Fýran, fýrian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fýran, fýrian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- fýran, fýrian
- p. de, ede To furrow, cut with a ploughshare (lit. and fig.):--Fýreð obliquat (ferri stimulus. . . sulcos obliquat ad instar aratri, Ald. 263, 12. The passage occurs in a riddle, 'De pugillaribus'), Wrt. Voc. ii. 64, 67. Ꝥ scer tungan úre fýrian (printed scyrian, but see An. Ox. 2492 note) ná durre eorþan heortan fremedre ut uomer linguae nostrae proscindere non audeat terram cordis alieni, Scint. 124, 5. Ongeán fírigende hand manus resulcans, iterum aperiens, An. Ox. 46, 49. [O. H. Ger. fur[h]en sulcare.]