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escurel1 (c.1216-20)
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escurel1 (c.1216-20)

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equirel;  equireuul;  escuirel,  escuroel;  esquirel;  esscurel;  (escurer  TLL ii 87.68 ),
(pl. eçquerus)  
  FEW:  sciurus 11,314a Gdf:  escureul 3,451c GdfC:  escuiruel 9,524c TL: escurueil 3,1030 DEAF:  escuruel  DMF:  écureuil  TLF:  écureuil  OED:  squirrel n.  MED:  squirel n.  DMLBS:  sciurellus 2973a

According to DMLBS, Latin choerogryllus, which normally means 'hare', is often glossed with vernacular words for 'squirrel', perhaps having been influenced by sciurelus.

s.

mammalszool.squirrel: 
( MS: c.1250 )  Hic experiolus, escurel  TLL i 418
( MS: s.xiii )  sirogrillorum: gallice eçquerus  TLL ii 153.26
( MS: s.xiiiex )  cirogrillorum: d’equireus [...] escureus  Vernac Glosses 17.26
( MS: s.xvm )  une escuyrel anglice a squuyrell  Fr Voc 92.256
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  cirogrillus: equireuus  TLL ii 149.26
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  esperioli: (D) escureus  TLL ii 148.74
♦skinssquirrel-skin: 
( c.1216-20; MS: 1419 )  Les feez de [...] genettz, conins panes, pelletrie, linge teille, fustiane, feutre, lormerie, peil, haberdassherie, esquireux, parmentrie, [...]  Lib Alb 231
( 1352 )  qe nulle [...] soit si hardi d'estre vestu [...] en nulle manere de vesture furree de pellure come de meneveyr, gris, purree de stranlyng, popelle des quirels (l. d’esquirels?), bys des conyns [et] des levres [...]  Deviance and Power 339
( MS: 1419 )  La charge d’esquireus d’Espaigne .xij. d.  Lib Alb 223
♦costumeskinseccl.almuce, (squirrel-)fur hood, often worn by a member of a religious order: 
( s.xiii1 )  amussi: esquirés  (ed. esquires)  Vernac Glosses 20.79

See also:

curel1  scurel 
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