Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gruf

Gruf (gruf) , adverb

[Compare Grovel.]

Forwards; with one's face to the ground. [Obsolete]

They fellen gruf, and cryéd piteously. — Chaucer

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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