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(
1171-74; MS: c.1200
) La cule (=a monk's cowl) ot suz les dras [...] Mes de pans e de manches l’aveit fait escurter
Becket1 584
♦to dock, shorten the tail of:
(
1190-1210; MS: c.1300
) Hunir les fist e vergunder E lur chevals fist escurter
WaldefBB 4672
(
s.xivin; MS: s.xivm
)
Un homme se pleint a son veisin qe sa chat ne vout demorer a meison. 'Non?' fet l'autre, 'escourtez sa cowe, e copés les orailles
BOZCont 74
(
s.xiiim; MS: c.1335
) En haste devez moryr; vostre vie est escourtee
Bonne Avent Tract 145
(
1360-79; MS: s.xivex
) la tristesce [...] la vie Escourte
GOWERMirour 5721
2to shorten, abridge, abbreviate:
(
c.1334; MS: s.xivm
)
nous n’escourterom pas la verité de l’estoire
TREVETCron1 1.12
v.refl.
to tuck up one’s robe, sleeves (etc.):
(
c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Il (=St. Francis) se escurta e a precher se myst
S FranANTS 5150
p.p. as a.
1short:
(
MS: c.1320-40
) Quaunt bras de houme se estendent taunqe ces meyns ateignent as genoyls, signefie hardiesse ou prouesse e largesse. E quant il sount escourteez, signe est de houme amant descord e poy sachaunt
Secr Physiognomy 93v
2reduced, diminished:
(
1333-35
) De divise (=boundary) freynte u escurtee
Bortreming 247
[escortir] (1171-74)