Óþ-healdan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - óþ-healdan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- óþ-healdan
- to withhold, keep back :-- Gif hwelc folc biþ mid hungre geswenced, and hwá his hwiǽte gehýt and óþhielt hú ne wilt hé ðonne hiera deáþes si populos fames atlereret, et occulta frumenta ipsi servarent, auctores proculdubio mortis existerent, Past. 49, 1; Swt. 377, 9. Ðæt he nǽfre nabbe húsa ðæt he hit (s tolen property) óþhealde. Lch. i. 384, 10. oþ-healdan