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eschele3 (s.xiiiin)
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eschele3 (s.xiiiin)

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escheile,  eschiele;  eschele,  eschiel;  escale;  echel,  echele;  eskele  
  FEW:  scala 11,268a Gdf:  eschiele 2 3,387b GdfC:  eschiele 9,515a TL: eschiele 1 3,891 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  échelle  TLF:  échelle  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  scala 1 2950a

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1ladder: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Muntent escheles, traient de crocs  Gui War 2475
( MS: s.xiii )  scalam: (C) echele  TLL ii 30
( MS: s.xiiiex )  scala: escheyle  TLL ii 57
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  Honte et paine [...] sunt les dous costeez de l’eschiele q’est adrescee sus al ciel  Ancren1 255.6
( MS: s.xvm )  un eschele .i. scala  Fr Voc 88.124
♦mil.(scaling) ladder: 
( 1381 )  le dit Johan Cornwaille vient a dit chastel nuttandre ou cessante homes armés ou diz escales de guerre et escala le dit chastel é debrossa les eous et les fenestres de dit chastel  TNA SC 8/55/2713
( 1409-10 )  venoient ové escales, pavises, hurdises et autres ordinances de guerre et la dit chastell assegerent  Rot Parl1 iii 629
2ornamental chain: 
( MS: s.xiii )  catelle: (A) eschaeles (var. (D: xiii/xiv) petit cheins)  TLL ii 51
♦rung, link in chain (?): 
( MS: s.xiiiin )  cidula: (F) eschele  Gloss Nequam1 259
3also_fig.step, steps: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Ceste est la premiere eschele de malice  Joshua Sermons ii 14
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  gradus: (D) echele  TLL ii 55

See also:

eschaler2  scale1 
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