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astele (1155)
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astele (1155)

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astel;  aestele,  hastele;  estel,  estele,  estelle,  hestele; 
pl. estés  (estoule,  stele  TLL i 141,  esceles (l. esteles),  eisselez  Fem2 67.1)  
  FEW:  astella 25,595b Gdf:  astele 1,456c GdfC:  astelle 8,218c TL: astele 3,1372 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  attelle  TLF:  attelle  OED:  astel n.  MED:  astel n.  DMLBS:  astella 146c

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1splinter: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  Des escuz volent les asteles  Brut WACE 12859
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Tote la (=shield) fent jusque la bocle; Les asteles l’en ferent suz la gule  Ch Guill 1837
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Sur sun escu […] Li vait faire un tel cembel Ke amunt volent li astel  S Modw 8271
♦twig, chip of wood: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  O piuz e o astelles les fessoient fuir  Rom de Rou wace i 70.154
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3? )  En prisun est de chaenes liez [...] Prist une hastele, si se leva en piez. Quatre at occis, par eus ne serra mes liez.  Otinel 1850
( c.1290; MS: s.xivin )  Les hasteles (M.E. shydes) fetes allumer (M.E. tende)  bibb MS (C) 13ra
♦ firewood: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  il truvat la femele En une bruscé u ele coillit astele  Anc Test (B) 14419
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  un grant feu ki a pooir d’ardoir estelles et gros trons  Waterford busby 240.S34.37
( 1339 )  couper, prendre et carier ou lour profit faire des ditz keynes, ou de les estoules et racyns de yceaux  Actes privés 213
♦kindling, tinder: 
( s.xivin; MS: c.1330 )  Fausine se moustre e revele; De Amour ne peert ja une estencele, Mes tut est allumee de Malice l’astele  BOZ Serm 54.40
2horsesequit.hame (one of two curved pieces of wood or metal which support a horse-collar): 
( c.1290; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Si des hesteles du chival (M.E. hors hames) Facet hasteles (M.E. schides to brennen) vus fret mal  bibb MS (A) 304vb
( MS: s.xiv )  arquillis: hames, estels  TLL ii 154
3weaponsmil.shaft of arrow: 
( 1388 )  que nul fleccher de yceste citee ne overera desormés ascun dymenche […] ne ne mettera ascunes setes, boltis, n’autres lurs darrés pur […] vender […] forsque pur mettre les chefs sur les estés quant busoigne soit  YMB i 110
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