1clapper of a bell:
(
MS: s.xiii
)
Artifices sunt illi subtiles qui fundunt campanas ex ere sonore, per quas in ecclesiis hore dieie denunciantur motu batillorum
(gloss: (L) de baterés) et cordarum attractarum
i 197.23 and ii 129.23
(
1267;
MS: c.1300
)
(referring to involuntary homicide) Sicum al prestre bien suner list, E par kas un humme en oscist, U du baterel u coment ke seit, De ceo cupable estre ne deit
8111
2clapper of a mill (for striking or shaking the hopper so as to make grain move down the millstones):
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
)
Et apte collocant molares, qui molunt de faricapsia farinam, que batillo
(gloss: (D*) baterel) (var. (L: s.xiii) sclaps) molendini descendit in alveum farinosum
i 199.48 and ii 135.48
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