entasser (1174-75)
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entasser (1174-75)

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  FEW:  *tas 17,319a Gdf:  entasser 1 3,251a GdfC:  entasser 9,480c TL: entasser 3,559 DEAF:  tas (entasser)  DMF:  entasser  TLF:  entasser  OED: ∅ MED:  entassed ppl.  DMLBS: ∅
 

v.a.

1agriculturalto stack, stook, make a rick of (harvested crop): 
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiii2 )  cil qe les deners amassent E bletz aiment e entassent  7
( 1340 )  de mes blees entassé ou engrangé pris et emportez gist autre accion  14-15 Ed III 111
2to pile, load or cover with a great mass: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Mais a un braz de mer Des barges e des batels cele ewe vont entasser [...] Pur faire pont par ont les genz pussent passer  238.148
3to pile up, crush, press together (in a crowd): 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Par force furent entassez les baruns de Bretaigne Dedenz lur meismes fermetez  192
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Ceuls de la ville ont entassé desqu’as portes de la cité  5983

v.refl.

1 to pile up, crush, press together (in a crowd): 
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 ) Mais le pont si porpris aveient Que li pelerin ne saveient Par ont il peussent passer, Tant s'en i vindrent entasser  4072

inf._as_s.

1crush, piling up, pressing together (of a crowd): 
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Trop li est dunc mesavenu. A l’entasser en la cité [...]  6173
atasser  entasseiz  entassement  tasser 
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