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enboeler (1190-93)
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enboeler (1190-93)

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emboeler;  enbouelier,  enboweler,  enbueler,  enbuelir,  enbuyler  (anboueler)  
  FEW:  botellus 1,464a Gdf:  emboelé 3,33b GdfC: ∅ TL: emböeler 3,53 DEAF:  boël 1 (emboeler)  DMF:  embouler  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to disembowel, eviscerate: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 ) Lancent gavelocs enpennez, Dunt il unt mil enboueliez, Ke tut tresperce[nt] al primer vol  S Edm Life ANTS 314
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Quant il out tut le champ vencu, N'en ad un sui vif retenu Que il nen ait esboelé (var. (T: s.xiii4/4) emboelé ) U od s'espee decolé  Brut WACE 3409 (var.)
( MS: s.xiiiex )  (the unicorn, having surrendered itself to a maiden) Ne prent garde de morir Quant uns armé l’anbouele  Rom 15 (Dd.10.31) 248
2 culin. to gut, cut open (a fish) and remove its internal organs: 
( MS: s.xiii2 ) Dicitur exsquamo (gloss: (D) eskerder) nec non exentero (gloss: (D) enbueler) pisces  TLL ii 32

v.refl.

to disembowel oneself: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  de l’agu s’enbowela meismes  TREVET Cron1 130.28

p.p. as a.

culin. (of fish) gutted, cut open and with the internal organs removed: 
( MS: s.xiii ) Pisces exenterati (gloss: enbuelis) cum salsa coquentur  TLL i 183.67 and ii 112.67
( MS: s.xiii2 )  exenterati: (C) enbuylez, eskerdez  TLL ii 70.67

See also:

aboé  aboeler  boele  boeler  esboeler 
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