1agriculturalcultivation, husbandry:
(
s.xii3/3;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Dunc porta a meisun le gain de sa culture
3899
(
1376
)
laborer de mayntenir la coultoure de la terre
ii 341
2agriculturalgeog.(piece of) cultivated land, arable field:
(
1160-74;
MS: s.xvii
)
La gent de cest pais est mout desconfortee [...], N’i a beuf ne charue ne villain en aree, Ne vingne prooignie ne couture semee
i 39.696
(
s.xii2;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
[…] Saul, ki de ses cultures repairad
21
(
c.1292;
MS: c.1300
)
quantz des champs et des cutures sount en demeyne
ii 67
(
1310
)
Nous avoms un culture
(var. une cousture l. coulture) joynant a cel pree
Ed II iii 104
(
1329-30
)
la garde del park […] et de deux cultures, c’est a dire Overcroft et Nethercroft
3-4 Ed III 343
♦
agriculturalgeog.strip of ploughland:
(
c.1285;
MS: c.1312
)
une custure
(l. culture) de terre deit estre qarante perches de lunc e qatre perches de leesce
314
♦
agriculturalfurlong:
(
c.1285;
MS: c.1312
)
duzze cultures funt une liue
314
3geog.close, curtilage, area of land around a house:
(
1283
)
quatre acres de pree en sun boys […] joste sa coture
25.38
(
1312
)
un maner ou J. […] ad une curte
(var. culture) ajoynt a ceo maner a qeu curte
(var. culture) G. ad un chemyn en temps overt
Ed II xii 125 (va.r)
4formation, training:
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Deus fist la culture del quor a la pucele
(=B.V.M.) si quite ke deable n’i out ke chalenger
ii 30
5theol.pagancult, worship, veneration of a deity:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
A Saturne l’esteille font en haut cuture
(var. (C: s.xiiim) en aust coture; (L: s.xiii2) en aust culture)
6035
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