Wroht-smiþ

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wroht-smiþ

m. A worker of crime, a criminal :-- Wróh-smiðas (evil spirits), Exon. Th. 156, 19; Gú. 877. Ðæt ðú mé ne gescyrige mid scyldhetum, werigum wróhlsmiðum (the cannibal Mermedonians), on ðone wyrrestan deáð ofer eorðan, Andr. Kmbl. 171 ; An. 86. wroht-smiþ