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desgarder (c.1185)
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desgarder (c.1185)

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degarder  
  FEW:  *wardon 17,519b Gdf:  desgarder 2,591a GdfC: ∅ TL: desgarder 2,1598 DEAF:  garder (desgarder) G 213 DMF:  dégarder  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to abandon: 
( c.1185 )  Li venz [...] A poi n’ad fait la nef verser; Muntent undes, crest lor peril, Tut unt desgardé lor atil  Proth ANTS 382

p.p. as a.

unguarded: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  lissir (=leave) la grange desgardee e la baterie sans garde [...]  HENLEY2 290.c76 (var. p. 304)
( 1292-93 )  le cors memes cel M. uncore demort desenterré, desolé e degardé  Sel Bills Eyre 76
( 1414-15 )  qele castel est tout degardé, issint qe nos enemys poyent aryver saunz ascuns desturbaunse faire  Rot Parl1 iii 255
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