Weorf

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - weorf

According to the Old English Dictionary:

weorf
Add: any draught cattle :-- Hwyorif [printed hryofif, but MS. has hwyorif (= ? weorf)] jumentum, Wrt. Voc. l. 23, 6. Hé geann . . . þám æþelinge .XL. mancsa goldes and þǽra wildra worfa æt Æscburnan lande, Cht. Crw. 23, ii. [The passage to which Hpt. Gl. 458, l is a gloss is: Indomitos bigarum subjugates.]

Related words: egþ-wirf. weorf

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