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notch, nick or incision made on a stick (as a means of keeping a tally):
(
1315
)
La taile est [...] une choce muette [...] et il y ad ochis si et nous ne savoms s'il seient des boefs ou dé vachis ou de altre choce
Ed II xvii 180
♦tally:
(
s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2
)
E s'il (= Man) fust tenu en bien fait L'osche des angles fust refait, Mais li home peccha lost en eire E l'osche remist a parfaire
7292 and 7294
♦breach, hole:
(
c.1245; MS: c.1255
)
Li chamberleins [...] vait le larcin a veire; Par grant osche k'il trove (= in money chest), Ke damage i est fait prove
1012