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closture (s.xii1/4)
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closture (s.xii1/4)

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clausture;  cloisture,  closteure,  clousture; 
pl. cloisturis  
  FEW:  clausura 2/i,754b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  closture 9,114b TL: closture 2,503 DEAF:  closure (closture)  DMF:  clôture  TLF:  clôture  OED:  cloture n.  MED:  closture n.  DMLBS:  clausura (claustura) 365a

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1enclosure, enclosed area: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  la celle e le enclosteure (var. (BN: s.xivin) la closteure) de recluse  Ancren2 194.14
( 1313 )  Jugement de ceste avowerie, car il ad avowé dens un closture ou destreinte n’est mie avowable qe la ou closture etc. vous doune cause de assise  YBB Ed II xiv.ii 82
2enclosure, fence, hedge: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiiiin )  N’i ad remis closture, Parei ne cuverture  thaon Body and Soul (C) 721
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Lud [...] Londres [...] Fist de mur clore tut entur. Lud fist faire la grant closture Des viez muralz  Brut WACE 3749
( 1315 )  Les sauch furent en cloisture entour un pree  YBB Ed II xvii 121
( 1366 )  H. lerra le closture du dit pasture en si bon estat […] come il la prist  GAUNT1 i 276
( 1373 )  surveiour de touz les ovrages des chastelx, manoirs, molyns, clostures des parks  GAUNT1 i 121
( 1388 )  pur default de closure (var. cloisture) divers avers entrerent  YBB 12 Rich II 137
♦sluice-gate: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  (Becket had fallen off his horse into the mill-stream:) aval esteit flotez. […] Quant il dut en la roe (=mill-wheel) chair, le chief devant, Li moliniers out mulu: mist la closture a tant  Becket1 224
♦barrier, obstacle: 
( MS: s.xii1/4 ) claustra: cum cloisturis  TLL i 20
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Entre les bons e malx ensement Avrat closture el jugement  Salemon 8382
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  De murs, de portes unt closture  Mirur1 152vb29
( 1321 )  et les huis seient clos et autre manere de cloisture qe jeo ne peus entrer  YBB Ed II xxvi 278
3med.fontanelle (of the skull): 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (a hot bath) Del cervel oevre la closture  Secr abernun 1657
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  useras suffumigations d’erbes acordans al tens et a ta complexion, car ce oivre les clostures de la cervelle  Waterford busby 240.S35.9
tenir en closture
to keep enclosed: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  le tenaunt pora issi dire qe le soil ou le pleyntif demaund commune est soen several, qe il put arrer et semer et enclore a sa volunté et en touz tens tener en closture  BRITT i 381

See also:

enclosture 
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