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chalemel (s.xii1)
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chalemel (s.xii1)

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chalamal,  chalameal;  chalemeal,  calemel;  chalmel  (charmel  TLL i 123 ),
(pl. chalmus,  schalmuse)  
  FEW:  calamellus 2/i,52a Gdf:  chalemele 2,39c GdfC:  chalemel 9,29a TL: chalemel 2,175 DEAF:  chalemel  DMF:  chalumeau  TLF:  chalumeau  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  calamaula 240b / calamus 240c

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1bot.reed: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Encrepe la beste del chalemel (Latin: calami)  Camb Ps 116.LXVII.31
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Se viande en use, d’un chalemel le prent  Rom Chev ANTS 6758
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  calamum: (L) chalemel, anglice red (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) chalamel)  TLL ii 78
♦implementdrinking-straw: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  si doit om doner a boivre parmi un calemel […]  A-N Med i 182
( MS: s.xv )  donez a boyre parmy un chalemel  Five Med MSS 122.E52
♦implementtube: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  (in order to remove an arrow from the body) si pernez un chalemel de fer u de areim e metre a l’une ele de la saite […]  A-N Med i 51
♦ implement reed-pen: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) La meie langue chalemeals d'escriva[i]ng ignelement escrivant  Oxf Ps ANTS 68.44.2
2musicshawm, double-reed wind instrument with a loud sound (similar to an oboe): 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Lais de harpes, lais de frestels, Lires, tympes e chalemels  Brut WACE 10550
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Devant les pez le roy vint agenoillant Od un cha[le]mel d’or baudement estivant  Rom Chev ANTS 2255
( 1390-92 )  Item, schalmuse petit […], un graunt schalmuse […]. Item un cornmuse […]  Goldsmiths 236
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  od graunt noys de ministralcie, de trumpers et des nakers, des cormus et de chalmus  Anon Chr1 102.10
chalemel de palu
bot.marsh-reed: 
( MS: s.xiii )  calamo palustri: chalemel de palu  TLL ii 115

See also:

chaumel 
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