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anguille (1140-1160)
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anguille (1140-1160)

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anguile,  anguilhe;  angule,  anguoille,  angoille,  anguillie,  angwil,  angwile;  angille  (anguoillie  4474,  enguilhe ),
(pl. angulus)  
  FEW:  anguilla 24,567a Gdf:  anguille 1,294c GdfC:  anguille 8,123c TL: anguile 1,395 DEAF:  anguile  DMF:  anguille  TLF:  anguille  OED:  anguille  MED:  anguille n.  DMLBS:  anguilla 86a

s.

ich.zool.eel: 
( 1140-1160; MS: 1140-1160 )  Ço est que jo i duins .x. milliers d’anguilles chescun an en Welles al vivre as frerres tuz dis parmanablement  265.1.28
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Pur la plenté k’a ou mareis D’anguillies et de peissons freis  308
( MS: c.1250 )  hec anguilla: anguille  i 415
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Les uns (fishes) ont une pias sens escales, cum sunt ballaines et porpois et enguilhes  285.S99.13
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  playz, sooles, floundres, anguillies, ne nul autre manere de peyçoun  102
( MS: c.1325 )  pus mettés gres de angwil  100.96
( 1485-1509 )  Item […] le brocour avera pur brocage […] Anguilles salés pur le barelle gross’ - iiij d.  E163/9/21, f.20v
anguille ruge
zool.ich.red eel: 
( 1482-83 )  mette au vende ascuns anguillez rougez  ii 471
tenir l’anguille par la cowe
prov.to hold an eel by the tail, i.e. not to have a proper hold on something: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Ki de mun (=woman’s) semblant mult se lue, Cil tent l’anguille dreit par la cue  1374
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