A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary / For the Use of Students

by J. R. Clark Hall

[ ±ceorfan³] to cut, cut down, slay, Mk, Æ; LkL: carve, cut out, engrave: tear.

[ ceorfæx] f. axe, AO 160¹⁵.

[ ceorfingīsen] n. branding iron, Sc.

[ ceorfsæx] n. surgeon’s knife, scalpel, Æ.

[ ±ceorian] to murmur, complain, Æ, AO.

[ ceorig] querulous, complaining, OEG.

[ ceorl] m. ‘churl,’ layman, peasant, husbandman, CP: freeman of the lowest class, LL; AO, CP: man: husband, Jn, WW; CP: hero, noble man.

[ ceorlǣs] (= ceorllēas) unmarried (of women), LL 360, 73b.

[ ceorlboren] low-born, not noble, LL.

[ ceorlfolc] n. common people, Æ.