corber (s.xii1)
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corber (s.xii1)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1588a curvare; Gdf: 2,298c corber; GdfC: 9,229c courver; TL: 2,848 corber /2,924 coirver; DEAF:  corber / corver; DMF:  courber; TLF:  courber; OED:  courbe v. / curbe v. / curve v.; MED:  courben v.; DMLBS: 543a curvare ]
corver;  curber;  curver,  curvir, 
p.pr. corfant  258  

v.a.

1to bend: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  devant la face de lui curverunt le genuil (Latin: curvabunt genu)  35.XXI.30
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  unches ne curberent le genuil devant Baal  161
( MS: s.xiii1 )  curvendum: curver  ii 104

p.p._as_a.

1curved: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Dous cornes ad agues, Trenchanz e esmolues E si sunt endentees Cum facilles curvees  766
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Courvez est, com fauz par semblant  4649
♦bent: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  sudibus vi lentatis: curvis  ii 62
♦arched: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  les sorciels corbés  295
♦bowed (in submission): 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Venez, aurums e seiums curvé (Latin: curvemur); flechisums nod [sic] genuilz  175.XCIV.6
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  lur dos seient tut dis curvez  343
recorber 
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