Þurh-stician

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - þurh-stician

According to the Old English Dictionary:

þurh-stician
to stick through, pierce, transfix :-- Ðorhsticadun transfixerunt, Jn. Skt. Lind. 19, 37. [Cf. Heo þuruhstihten Isboset adun into þe schere (percusserunt eum in inguine, 2 Sam. 4, 6), A. R. 272, 12. O. Frs. thruch-steka: O. H. Ger. durh-stehhan confodere, transfigere.] þurh-stician
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