cep (s.xii3/4)

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cep (s.xii3/4)

[ FEW: 2/i,691b cippus; Gdf: 2,17b cep; GdfC: 9,18b cep; TL: 2,118 cep; DEAF: ; DMF:  cep; TLF:  cep 2; OED:  chep n.; MED: ; DMLBS: 339b cippus ]
ceep,  ceepe,  cepe,  ceppe,  ceps,  cepse,  cept;  ciep,  cip;  cerpe;  cirpe,  sep,  seppe; 
pl. cepz,  ceu  18  

s.

1treesbot.stock, lower part of a tree-trunk or plant
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Li cep d’argent, les foilles d’or, les grapes de cristal  4340
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Bon greife, quant de bon cep crest, Bon fruit par raisun en nest  99
log, large piece of wood used as firewood
( MS: s.xiii/xiv ) In hospitio probi hominis debent hec esse: [...] torres et cremalia, focalia, stipes, cippi gloss: (D) ceps (var. (C: s.xiiiex) troncs;  (L: s.xiii) cep )  i 200.55 and ii 137.55
fig.stock, descent
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  H., sun frere de mesme le pere et de mesme la mere, et W. sun uncle de parte le pere, qe sunt issue de mesme le cep (var. (D2: 1327-77) ceepe; (Add1: a1330) ceppe; (Add2: 1327-77) saunke)  97
( 1317 )  vus covent dire le cep de qi issunt les branchez en quel temps celi cep comun auncestre fut seisi  Ed II xxi 55
2stocks, instrument of punishment that confines a prisoner’s feet or ankles
( MS: s.xii2 )  compes vel cippus: fotcops, bueittes, cep .i. stoccas  56.208
( c.1260; MS: c.1300 )  comettre son vilein en cep  4
( MS: s.xiii2 )  Assint etiam cippi gloss: (C) cepz (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) ceps; (L: s.xiii/xiv) cepses) et columbaria (C) piloryz, excubie vigiles suis cornibus clangorem et strepitum facientes  i 184.71 and ii 72.71
( s.xiii3/3; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  s’il ne puisse trover nulls meynpernours soit il mis en cieps  103
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  le mist en ceps ou en firgez  58
punishment in stocks
( 1291-92 )  ne volayt le vandist sire P. resseyvere le remenaunt (=of debt), ne de sun cips fere delyveraunce  38
( 1313 )  Si nul larroun seit pris en son sokne, il deit aver soun cep et soun enprisonement en son sokne  150
franc cep
1lawfree stock
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Endreit de […] acun qi soit venu de tiel cep defuaunt de soen seignur […], et celi futif puse averrer soen cep fraunc […]  i 196
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  si le defendant puisse moustrer franc cep de ces (=ses) auncestres  108
cep de vigne
1winestock
( MS: c.1250 )  hec vitis: cep de vine  i 427.535
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