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1 SKURÐR
(-ar, -ir), m.1) cutting;2) slaughtering (sauðir ætlaðir til skurðar);4) ditch, channel (s. svá breiðr ok djúpr, at þar mátti vel skipum halda); grafa skurð, to dig a ditch;5) carving, of art (silfri var rennt í skurðina).* * *m., gen. skurðar, pl. skurðir, [skera], a scoring, cutting, carving; skurð ok skipti á hvalnum, Grett. 88 A; hón (the church) á skurð ( has a share of whales driven ashore) um öll þing sín … ok skurð í öllum þeim rekum, er…, Ám. 3, Pm. 133; manns-hlut í flutningu ok fullan skurð, Ám. 33; kirkja á skurð fullan milli Ormsár ok Tungu-reka af hverjum hval sem kemr, Pm. 69: of cutting peat, skurðr torfs, Dipl. iii. 6; göra skurði um torfvöllu, iv. 12: a cut, wound, skera sig djúpan skurð, þver-s.: fé til skurðar, cattle for slaughtering, Fms. vii. 218, viii. 60; skurðar-fé, sheep fit for slaughter.2. carving (of art); silfri var rennt í skurðina, Fær. 102; stafnar útskornir ok víða í skurðina silfri smellt, Fas. iii. 426; gull-görvar með inum fegrstu skurðum, Str. 4; villa skurða, idolatry, worship of carven idols, 655 ix. B. 2; skurðar gluggr, a carved window, Str. 70.3. a ditch, channel, Fas. iii. 449; þessi skurðr svá breiðr ok djúpr at þar mátti vel skipum halda, Fms. v. 167: hence the metaph., hvat sem gengr í skurðinn, cost it what it may; Gísli kvaðsk þó aldrei mundu Kolbeini eið sverja hvat sem í skurðinn gengi, Sturl. iii. 3 (the metaphor from filling up a ditch or perhaps from enamelling, cp. renna í skurðina, above).COMPDS: skurðarmaðr, skurðarskírn, skurðaröl.
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