Of-scotian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - of-scotian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- of-scotian
- to shoot, wound or kill with an arrow, spear, etc. :-- Hé hét hine mid strǽlum ofscotian, ðæt hé wæs ðara swá full swá igl biþ byrsta, Shrn. 55, 8. Ne ofsleá hine nán man mid his handa ac sí hé mid stánum oftirfod oððe mid flánum ofscotod manus non tanget eum, sed lapidibus opprimetur aut confodietur jaculis, Ex. 19, 13. Mid flánum ofscotod and mid stánum oftorfod sagittis, saxis contriti, Ors. 4, 11 ; Swt. 206, 14.