Óþ-sceotan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - óþ-sceotan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- óþ-sceotan
- to shoot away, escape, turn aside, hurry off :-- Swá hwá swá óþscýt fram ánnysse ðæs geleáfan whoever turns aside from the unity of the faith, Homl. Th. i. 370, 17. Man gehylt ðæt hé. hæfþ gif hé him ondrǽt ðæt hit him óþsceóte a man guards what he has, if he is afraid that it will escape from him, Pro