1break, gap, breach:
(
1113-19;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
En la breche est l’entree Que nus est aprestee
1660
(
c.1136-37;
MS: s.xiiex
)
tresqu’en Humbre siglent es brecces
5454
(
1275
)
la grant brekke del mur, qi chaist passé a ja pres de deus aunz
17
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
Estopez vos orreilles si com l’em estoupe la brecke d’espines
(ed. des pines) (var. (BN: s.xivin) des espines)
188.20
(
1386
)
hebbyngnettes myses [...] en la bruche envers Berkyng [...] al breche sur la terre l’abbé de S.
120
♦
ven.(forest) break:
(
1312
)
il avoit brek lessé qe nous poems chacer nos bestes et vous levastes un fosse en ceo brecke
Ed II xii 126
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