forslyngred

Middle English

Verb

forslyngred

1. belaboured
   • 1481, William Caxton, Thystorye of Reynard the Foxe, in: 1844, Early English Poetry, Ballads, and popular Literature of the Middle Ages. Edited from original Manuscripts and scarce Publications. Vol. XII. The History of Reynard the Fox, from the Edition printed by Caxton in 1481. With Notes and an introductory sketch of the literary History of the Romance, by William J. Thomas, London, p. 18:

     [...]; that one had an leden malle, and that other a grete leden wapper, ther wyth they wappred and al forslyngred hym.

     The History of Reynard the Fox, in: 1889, Early Prose Romances: Reynard the Fox – Friar Bacon – Robert the Devil – Guy of Warwick – Virgilius – History of Hamlet – Friar Rush. Edited by Henry Morley, p. 56 and cp. p. 13f.:

     • [...]. That one had a leaden malle, and that other a great leaden wapper, therewith they wappred and all forslingred ¹ him, [...]
       ¹ Wappered and forslingered, beat at and overwhelmed with blows. The Low German slingen, to swallow, is to be distinguished from Low German, slingern, the word here.
     • Caxton's translation was made from the Low German, and retains many Teutonic words in their Dutch form [...]. The first edition of Caxton's translation was finished at Westminster in June 1481. There was a second edition in 1489, of which the only known copy is in the Pepys Library at Cambridge. [...] I have, therefore, corrected absolute mistakes, and broken the story into paragraphs that mark [...]. Old words and grammatical forms have been left, but I have preferred to print familiar words that remain to us in modern English in the spelling that now brings their sense most quickly to the reader's mind.