Obs. Forms: 1 þyddan, þiddan, 3 þudde (ü), 4 thud. Pa. t. 1 þydde, þidde, 3 þudde. Pa. pple. 3 iþud. [OE. þyddan, of uncertain origin. It would normally represent an OTeut. *þudjan, from a stem *þud-.]
1. trans. To strike or thrust with a weapon; to stab. Only in OE.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xl. 294. Ða ðydde [L. percussit] Abner hiene mid hindewearde sceafte on ðæt smælðearme ðæt he wæs dead. Ibid., 296. Ðat mon mid hindewearde sceafte ðone ðydde [L. ferire est] þe him oferfylʓe.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Judg. iii. 21. Þa abræd Aoth … his swurd … and hine hetelice þidde, swa þæt þa hiltan eodon in to þam innoðe.
2. To thrust, press, push (a thing to or into a place, etc.). Also fig.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Num. xxii. 25. Se assa … þidde his hlafordes fot þearle to þam heʓe.
c. 1205. Lay., 1898. Geomagog … þudde [c. 1275 þraste] Corineum frommard his breoste. Ibid., 9159. Moni hundred þusend þe iþud beoð to hellen.
a. 1225. St. Marher., 14. Ant þenne þudde ich in ham luueliche þohtes.
1400. in Ancestor, July (1904), 19. And anon as i be ded thud me in the erthe.
3. intr. To press with force.
a. 1225. St. Marher., 12. Þa þudde ha uppon þe þurs feste wið hire fot.
