Scyfe

According to the Old English Dictionary:

scyfe

I a. add: glossing praecipitium :-- Þá hors . . . þǽre eá wǽtres hryne heom ondrédon, efne swá hit sum deáþes plyht oððe scyfe wǽre aquam fluminis tangere quasi mortalem praecipitium pertimescebant, Gr. D. 15, 10. scyfe