eschele3 (1194-99)
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eschele3 (1194-99)

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  FEW:  scala 11,268a Gdf:  eschiele 2 3,387b GdfC:  eschiele 9,515a TL: eschiele 1 3,891 DEAF:  eschiele 1  DMF:  échelle  TLF:  échelle  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  scala 1 2950a
escale;  echel,  echele;  eschele,  escheyle;  eschiel,  eschiele;  eskele  

s.

1ladder: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Muntent escheles, traient de crocs  2475
( MS: s.xiiiex )  scala: escheyle  ii 57.87
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  Honte et paine [...] sunt les dous costeez de l’eschiele q’est adrescee sus al ciel  255.6
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  gradus: (D) echele  ii 55.87
( MS: s.xvm )  un eschele (Latin: scala)  88.124
♦mil.(scaling) ladder: 
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 ) La veissiez de deus parz traire As eschieles al mur atraire  4880
( 1381 )  le dit Johan Cornwaille vient a dit chastel nuttandre ou cessante homes armés ou diz escales de guerre et escala le dit chastel é debrossa les eous et les fenestres de dit chastel  SC 8/55/2713
( 1409-10 )  venoient ové escales, pavises, hurdises et autres ordinances de guerre et la dit chastell assegerent  iii 629
2jewel.ornamental chain: 
( MS: s.xiii )  colli vero et pectoris et humerorum torques, fasbulle, monilia, murrene, catelle gloss: (A) eschaeles (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) petit cheins), armille, fibule [...]  i 175.91 and ii 51.91
3fig.step, means of achieving a goal: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Ceste est la premiere eschele de malice  ii 14
eschele de paradis
1 theol.title Ladder of Paradise, epithet for the Virgin Mary (through whom humanity can ascend to Heaven): 
( MS: c.1300 ) Avé Seynte Marie [...], Avé esteile de mer de grant resplendisur, Eschele de paradis, salu de pecheur  211v
eschaler#2  eschalun#1  eschelette#2  eschellement  scale#1 
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