1to steal, run off with:
(
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
La pie seit muscer Kant ke peut
aloper En un privé lu
224.68
2lawto abduct (a person):
(
1278
)
come Johanne de B., par F. de S. […] feust
allopee
i 1
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
ceux qi robbent […] ou
allopent noneins
28
3occupationto entice (a person) from one employment to another:
(
1370
)
Item qe nul ne fortreisast ne
alopast autri apprentiz, sergant ne lowys qe del mester fust
128
1to run away:
(
1312;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Ma bele file Douce Pieté Hors de tere est
alopé; Ne sai ou est
668
♦
lawto elope, run away from one’s husband with a lover:
(
1337
)
En bref de dower pledé fut q’il
(=ele) alopa de soun baroun en tiel ville en tiel counté, nient recounseil
(l. recounseilé) en la vie soun baroun
11-12 Ed III 287
1lawto elope, run away from one’s husband with a lover:
(
1309
)
el se
alopa de son baroun et demorra ové son avouter
Ed II ii 145
1law elopement of a married woman:
(
1345
)
Dowere, ou
aloper fuit pledé en barre saunz estre recounseillé
19 Ed III 139
1laweloper, woman who has run away from her husband with a lover:
(
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
Mes pur aquere le quer de cele
alopé, Par sey vout dereygnyr sun dreit en li clamé
507 (VI)
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