[clouer] (1155)
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[clouer] (1155)

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[ FEW: 2/i,770a clavus; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,114c clouer; TL: 2,492 clöer; DEAF:  clo (cloer); DMF:  clouer; TLF:  clouer; OED:  clow v.1 / cloy v.1; MED:  cloien v.; DMLBS: 357a clavare ]
clauer,  claver;  cloer,  cloier,  clower  

v.a.

1 to nail, hammer nails into: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Mult veissiez nes aturner, [...] Nes assechier e nes floter, Nes cheviller e nes cloer  11196
♦to nail, pierce with nails: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  ses piez e ses mains suffrid en croiz cloer  910
( MS: s.xiv1 )  Noste (l. Nostre) Sire fu pris e lyé e clowé  4

p.p._as_a.

1nailed: 
( 1378 )  Englisshbord bien clowé de bones clowes de fer  i 103
♦hobnailed: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  unes grosses chauces clavees  1568
2horsesequit.lame, cloyed: 
( 1415-17; MS: s.xv1 )  et stoppez le peez de[l] chival gris qu’estoit cloié  (D) 23.188
( 1415; MS: s.xv1/4 )  mon chivalx est laas et cloyé devant et derere  71.15
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