Torfung

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - torfung

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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torfung
f. I. a throwing of stones, stoning :-- Ðæt hine (a slave who had absconded) man lǽdde tó ðære torfunge, L. Ath. II. a throwing, casting, hurling :-- Hié his wǽran swíðe ehtende ge mid scotum ge mid stána torfungum, Ors. 5, 9; Swt. 134, 16. torfung

Related words: 6, 3; Th. i. 234, 8. Cf. Si fur servus homo sit, eant sexaginta et viginti servi et lapident eum, iii. 6; Th. i. 219, 13. v. Grmm. R. A. 693.

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