therf

English

Etymology

From 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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