1pitch, bitumen:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Granz portes i fist fere e fortes barres cloer, De butemay les fist trestotes engluer
Rom Chev ANTS 6557
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
Babilonie que Semiramis la reine fist de tiule e de betumee pur ceo que les tiules contresteussent al feu e la betumee a l’ewe
Eluc 71.76
2geog.bog, area of damp ground:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Groses i sunt les mers, li mont haut e plener, [...] Ly butemay parfont e estreit li senter
Rom Chev ANTS 6233
(
1174-75;
MS: s.xiiex
)
E trova une fosse, u ele pres se nie. Enz en mi le betumei ses aneus i ublie
FANT OUP 1066
(
c.1230;
MS: 1275-85
)
Les betumeis i sunt si grant Ke les ewes tenent estant
Pet Phil 1645
(
1266-1300;
MS: c.1300
)
se il paisent en lais et en botomiers et en mores et en toutes terres moistes et parfondes
Waterford busby 280.S95.20
(
1374-75
)
Johannes de Gyssungg iniuste occupavit le bytemay
Norwich Leet 65
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