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cantel (s.xii3/4)
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cantel (s.xii3/4)

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cantell,  cantelle;  cauntel;  chantel,  chauntel;  kantel,  kantelle;  qantel,  quantel  (chante)  
  FEW:  canthus 2/i,230a Gdf:  cantel 1,777c / chantel 1 2,56a / gontal 4,309 GdfC:  chantel 9,40a TL: chantel 2,227 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  cantel  / chanteau  TLF:  chanteau  OED:  cantle n.  MED:  cantel n.  DMLBS:  cantellus 1 262c / cantellus 2 263a

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1segment, wedge, slice: 
( MS: s.xiii )  frustis: cantel  Gloss Garland 168
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  un cantel de pain ou de formage  TREVET Cron1 361.9
♦eccl.costumeside-piece of a pectoral: 
( 1433-34; MS: c.1449 )  ung bel poitraille d’or en trois peces pendans, […] avec deux chantes pour pendre au dit poitrail  Bedford Inventories 206.B162
♦mil.edge, rim (of shield): 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  avrai […] estroé escu en bucle u en chauntel  Horn 1156
( c.1185 )  Tut le cantel (=of shield) en porte hors  Proth ANTS 5615
♦herald.canton: 
( c.1275 )  […] eschekeré d’or e d’azur a une kantelle d’ermine  Eight Rolls 46.24
( s.xivm; MS: s.xivex )  Sire Raynalde de Boys porte l’escu d’argent ové une cantelle de goules  Dean Tract 122
♦herald.the first quarter (of a quarterly field): 
( 1307-08 )  Sir A. de H. port d’argent ou la croys de gules passant, en la cauntel une merlot de sable  Rolls of Arms 502.61
2difference between razed and heaped measure: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  ke nul buscel ne nul demy bussel ne nul cantel ne remeyne al provost  HENLEY2 276.c39
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  al oytyme bussel lessez un qantel pur le gaste qe chet al entrer e al issir de gerner  HENLEY2 324.c55
en cantel
askew, to one side: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Broche le cheval, l’escu torne en cantel  Rom Chev ANTS 2164
( c.1185 )  Rumpent li laz et li fresel, L’helme turne un poi en cantel, Si que le vis ot descovert  Proth ANTS 8016
faire un cantel
to cut out a slice, segment: 
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  du nuvel Escu A. fait un chantel  S Edw paris ANTS 297
tenir l’escu en cantel
mil.to carry one’s shield on the arm, ready for battle: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Il teneit l’escu en chantel (var. (B: s.xivin) en un chantel) E tent en feutre un gleive gros E veneit les menuz gualos  Ipom BFR 4632
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