abraid

Definition

To wrench (something) out.

Etymology

From Middle English abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from Old English ābreġdan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdaną (“to move, swing”), of uncertain further origin. Equivalent to a- + braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”).

Example Sentences

• "She ferde as she had stert out of a sleep, / Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde."
• "But when as I did out of ſleepe abray, / I found her not where I her left whyleare, […]"
• "But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old[…]"

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