therf

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English þeorf; akin to Old High German derb, Old Norse þjarfr.

Adjective

therf (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, of bread, loaves, etc.) Not fermented, unleavened.
   • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), Leviticus 2:4:

     Forsothe whanne thou offrist a sacrifice bakun in an ouene of whete flour, that is, loouys without sour dow, spreynd with oile, and therf breed sodun in watir, bawmed with oile; […]

References

• “therf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.