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
Rom Chev ANTS 4340
(
c.1245;
MS: c.1255
)
Bon greife, quant de bon cep crest, Bon fruit par raisun en nest
S Edw paris ANTS 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
)
TLL 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)
Nov Narr 97
(
1317
)
vus covent dire le cep de qi issunt les branchez en quel temps celi cep comun auncestre fut seisi
YBB Ed II xxi 55
2stocks, instrument of punishment that confines a prisoner’s feet or ankles:
(
c.1260;
MS: c.1300
)
comettre son vilein en cep
Casus Plac 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
TLL 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
Court Bar 103
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
le mist en ceps ou en firgez
Mir Just 58
♦
punishment in stocks:
(
1291-92
)
ne volayt le vandist sire P. resseyvere le remenaunt
(=of debt), ne de sun cips fere delyveraunce
Sel Bills Eyre 38
(
1313
)
Si nul larroun seit pris en son sokne, il deit aver soun cep et soun enprisonement en son sokne
Lib Cust 150
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