of-steppan

of-steppan, wk.v: to trample upon. (ov-STEP-pahn)

St Patrick tramples on a snake in Purgatory, in St Patrick’s Purgatory. England, 1451. British Library, Royal MS 17 B XLIII, f. 132v. [blogs.bl.uk]

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