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Origin obscure. Perhaps a variant of terfle or a variant of Middle English torfer (hardship, harm, injury). More at torfer.

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torfel (third-person singular simple present torfels, present participle torfeling, simple past and past participle torfeled)

  1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To fall; decine; pass away; die.

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