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croller (s.xii1)
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croller (s.xii1)

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croiler,  croilier,  croiller;  croueller,  crouler,  crouller,  crodler;  creuller,  crueller,  cruler  
  FEW:  *corrotulare 2/ii,1228b Gdf:  crolant 2,381b / croler 2,382a GdfC:  croler 9,255b TL: croler 2,1090 DEAF:  croler  DMF:  crouler  TLF:  crouler 1  / crouler 2  OED:  crowl v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to shake, wag: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Crollez la main, hochez les dez (=dice)  Brut WACE 10584
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Se vient uns altres, crollant sa grosse borse  Rom rom 529
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  La teste escut (var. (B: s.xiv1/4) croulout) plusurs feez  Man pechez 2705
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  […] lour testes […] si vilement croulerent  Ancren2 262.26
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  Voz piees et mayns ne croulez (M.E. waggeþ)  Fem2 86.3
♦weaponsto brandish (a weapon): 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  sa espede crollerat  Oxf Ps ANTS 45.7.13
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Idonc put l’em veer les fossez asaillir […] E crouler ses espiés e gavelos brandir  Rom Chev ANTS 1193
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  il ad croulé sa espé […] de vus ferir  Ancren2 82.13
2to shake, rock, cause to tremble: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  la voiz del Segnur crollant le desert  Oxf Ps ANTS 57.28.7
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Les fundemenz des munz sunt esmeuz e crodlez  Liv Reis1 101

v.intrans.

1to shake, quake: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  Romein saillent tuz ensemble, Tute la terre crolle e tremble  Brut WACE 12142
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Al nasquir de l’enfant […] tote la terre croula  Rom Chev ANTS 410
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  (At the Crucifixion) tote la terre comensa a crouler (var. trembler)  Mirour Egl 68.25
( c.1290; MS: s.xv1 )  Vache mugie, coudres croulent (M.E. quakes)  bibb MS (O) 333va
2to rock, be unsteady: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  La nef ne croule, ne chancele  S Edm Life ANTS 1408
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  La terre est runde cum pelote, Ne muit ne croulle ne ne flote  Pet Phil 360
♦to be loose, shaky: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 )  La pudre del jaiet lavee en ewe cunfermet les denz ki crollent  Lapid 102.XV.8
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  ne la (=crozier) purent pas oster (=from the stone) Ne sulement faire croller  S Edw barking 5821
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  totes les denz croiller li ferai  Gui War 12692
♦med.to be loose: 
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  Prover si homme est rumpu: ard[ez] seu devant luy e son ventre croulera  A-N Med ii 245
3 to move, wiggle: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3? )  Baruns, ne vus remuez, Kar par icel Dex a qui me sui donez Ja murent set cent si vus croulez  Otinel 106

v.refl.

1to jig, cavort: 
( 1396; MS: s.xivex )  le signeur ou ses escuiers se croulent, balent, dancent  Man lang ANTS 42.31
2to collapse: 
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  (A sick man) Sa et la teste (l. la [la] teste) (=back and forth) ad geté, Qe tut le lit se est croullé (var. (B: s.xiv1/4) Ke le lit s’en est croullé)  Man pechez 4742

p.pr. as a.

tottering, unstable: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Crollant seient tresporté li fil de lui  Oxf Ps ANTS 110.108.9
( c.1215; MS: 1330-40 )  cest pont […] Estreit est trop e creullant (var. (P: s.xvin) trop escrillant)  Purg S Pat second anon 573

sbst. inf.

shaking: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  le crouler de lour testes  Ancren2 262.24

p.p. as a.

brandished: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  kar en tele manere est le cop plus felon e plus desvé de dars bien croullés  vegetius2 25.2
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