We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
espeluker (s.xiii2)
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

The form espulcher is a cross reference to the following entry:

espeluker (s.xiii2)

Cite this entry
espeleker,  espelicer,  espeleucher,  espelucher;  espoulecher;  esplucher;  espulcher  (espeliter (l. espelicer)  Glan lex 94C,  espeluper,  espulicher  Glan lex 94B,  espuluper)  
  FEW:  *pilucare 8,506a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  espeluchier 9,540c TL: espeluchier 3,1175 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  éplucher  TLF:  éplucher  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to strip, rob: 
( c.1290; MS: s.xivin )  Eschuez flatour ke seet flater & les genz espeluper  bibb MS (C) 5vb
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  Le seneschal [...] espeluke (var. (C: s.xivin) espeleke) la gent a tort  BOZ Char 482
( 1312; MS: s.xiv1 )  (covetousness) espeluke (var. (U: s.xiv1/4) espouleche; (R: s.xiv1) espluche; (T: s.xiv2) despoille) les povres gens E les reynt desques a dens  Plainte Am 214

v.refl.

orn.falc.zool.to pluck out one’s own feathers: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Icest mal (=fleas) peot hom conustre par ceo ke le oisel se espelice tut le jur e escut se sus sa perche  Glan lex 92C
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  (a good sparrow-hawk:) corteisement se peyst e queyntement se proynt e sovent espeluke  Rom 13 536 (L)

p.p. as a.

peeled, stripped (of bark): 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  coperun de runce, le enter-escorche de seu, savine, de chekun uel pas, nettement lavé e espeluké  Med Pres1 138
espeluker ses (etc.) dents
to pick one's teeth: 
( 1430; MS: s.xv2/4 )  Ne devez tes dens espelucher De festu al manger  Courtoisie 439.68
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
espulcher