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▪ I. † threng, n. Obs.
[variant of thring n.1, assimilated to threng v.]
A crowd, throng; = thring n.1
c1275Lay. 2229 Among þe þrenge of sipmen hii funde þeos maydenes. 13..K. Alis. 2533 (Bodl. MS.) Abouten hij gonnen goo Par force smyten in to þe þrenge And duden beastes from oþere drenge. c1330Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing) 6099 Of Sarazins gret þreng About our Cristen made reng.
▪ II. † threng, v. Obs.
Pa. tense threngde.
[Early ME. þrengen, wk. vb.; in form a factitive from thring v.:—OTeut. *þrangian (cf. MHG. dręngen, Ger. drängen to press, throng, late ON. þrøngva, -gja, Icel. þrengja, Sw. tränga, Da. trænge to press), in signification not differing from thring v.]
1. trans. To press or crush into a narrow space; to force into confinement: = thring v. B. 5 c.
a1154O.E. Chron. an. 1137, Sume hi diden in crucethus ðæt is in an cæste þat was scort and nareu and undep..and þrengde þe man þær inne ðæt him bræcon alle þe limes. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 473 Anticrist wolde faste to men godis of fortune bi coueytise, þat shulden drenge a man to helle. [But perh. this is for drenche = sink.]
2. intr. To go in a crowd or throng, press in, out, etc.: = thring v. B. 1.
c1200Ormin 16182 Þatt he swa swiþe mikell follc Draf all ut off þe temmple... Swa þatt teȝȝ alle þrenngdenn ut Off all þatt miccle temmple. |