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escherde (1121-35)
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escherde (1121-35)

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escheirde,  escharde;  escarde,  eskerde,  eçkerde  (echede,  querdes)  
  FEW:  *skarda 17,96b Gdf:  escharde 3,367c GdfC:  escharde 9,511c TL: escharde 3,853 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  écharde 1  TLF:  écharde  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1chip, splinter: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  peres [...] faites en tels maneres Qu’il n’ad buche ne jointure Ne echede ne creveure  Best ants 3026
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Ne valt trenchant espié plus qe escherde ou areste  Rom Chev ANTS 7202
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Une targe out a or listee [...] Suz ciel n’out arme que ren entamast, Ne tant que une eskerde en trenchast  Gui War 8416
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  leveure d’escarde del teste en (l. est) mahain  Mir Just 25
( MS: c.1325 )  Betoyne chase hors lé querdes dey [sic] os brucés esire soude lé nerws  Receptaria 151.690
2anat.barb, scale (of dragon, etc.): 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  il (=the Devil) me tient, Point de ses escherdes  Dial Greg SATF 18114
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  (the dragon) ne s’enmaya de rien pur le coup, tant out dur l’escharde e l’esclot devant  Fouke ANTS 47.31
3ich.zool.anat.scale (of fish): 
( MS: s.xiii )  squamas: (C) escherdes (var. (T: xiii/xiv) eçkerdes)  TLL ii 26
( MS: s.xiiiex )  squama: eskerde, scale  TLL ii 169
♦med.scab: 
( c.1185 )  Les eskerdes cheent aval, guariz est Dardanus del mal  Proth ANTS 4497
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