to become stiff, grow tense:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
)
Lores conurbé sunt li prince de Edom, les forz de Moab purtint crieme; enredirent tuit li habitedur de Chanaan
Oxf Ps ANTS 134.IV.17
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
ki ci enreidirent del freit de malice, par dreit deivent la estre pené de freit
Eluc 84.15
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