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escorcheur (s.xii/xiii)
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escorcheur (s.xii/xiii)

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escorcher,  escorchour,  escorchur;  eschorchur;  escorgeour, 
(pl. echorchrus,  escochurs)  
  FEW:  *excorticare 3,282a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  escorcheor 9,519a TL: escorchëor 3,966 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  écorcheur  TLF:  écorcheur  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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occupationskinner: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Quaunt demoré Out a mesun jesk’au matyn Un escho[r]chur y mena Martyn (=to kill and skin an injured ox)  S Fran ANTS 8637
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  [...] des escorgeours (var. (N: c.1310) escorchers; (C: s.xiv1/3) escorcheurs) ou toundours des berbiz  BRITT i 84
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  sallatores: (O) escochurs (var. (C: xiiiex) escorchours; (D: xiii/xiv) eschorchurs; (L: xiiiex) echorchrus)  TLL ii 39
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