tobreken

Middle English

Verb

tobreken

1. to break apart; to break up
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     And in the floor, with nose and mouth tobroke, They walwe as doon two pigges in a poke

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