v. Obs. Forms: see SLAY. [OE. tosléan, f. TO-2 + sléan to strike, SLAY. So OS. te-slahan; OFris. to-slâ, OHG. za-, zi-slahan, MHG. zerslahen, zerslân, Ger. zerschlagen.]
trans. To strike or knock to pieces; to strike down violently; also, to kill outright.
a. 700. Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.), 195. Concidit, tisloʓ.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss., 516. Tosloʓ.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., IV. ii. § 1. Þunor tosloʓ heora hiehstan godes hus Iofeses.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 450. Swiðlic wind … tosloh þæt hus.
c. 1430. Syr Tryam., 372. Why dyd he the to-slon?
14[?]. Sir Beues (C.), 2712. And had caste on hym venome, And the knyght all to-sloon.
