1treesgeog.bot.woodland, grove, clump of trees:
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
)
arbusti: (D) arbirine, bussuner
(var. (L: s.xiiiex) butunire; (O: xii/xiii) buttunere, locus ubi crescunt arbores)
ii 38
(
1329-30
)
le lieu […] appellé Orchardesdik […] ou il avoit getté arbroie
(var. arbrine), c’est a savoir freyns, keynes […]
3-4 Ed III 363 (var.)
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