1to couple, conjoin:
(
1160-74;
MS: s.xvii
)
Les chartres en sunt plainnes, tant en y unt geté, En aniaux deuls et deuls en unt maint acouplé
i 123.3304
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii2/4
)
Par la ure e le tens
acupler As esteilles pur acorder
(=for purposes of horoscope)
10775
♦
also_fig.to join, couple:
(
c.1270;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
s’il seient
acoplez a fei, e esperance, e cherité
2323
(
1388
)
accouply en loial matrimonie par le ley de seint esglise
12 Rich II 154
♦
to join in sexual intercourse:
(
1260-70;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Al ostel fu le crestien bacheler, Qe od sa
(=his master’s) femme sovent jua, […] Tant qe le deable les
acopla
9047
2livestockto yoke:
(
s.xii2;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
les vaches […] a porter l’arche sunt
acuplé
14
1fig.clash, fight:
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Mais en lur
acupler (=J.C. & Devil) ert deable vencu par mames
[
sic] les armes parunt il quida veintre
ii 29
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