1to strangle, throttle, hold by the throat and suffocate:
(
1121-35;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
Quant il se dormirait, Diables i viendraient, Estrangler le voldreient
2602
(
1160-74;
MS: s.xvii
)
Miex la voudroit avoir noié ou estranglee
i 107.2807
(
s.xii2;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
Asael d’un lach
estrangla le roi
189
(
MS: s.xiiiex
)
jugulo:
estrangler
ii 164
♦
(of an animal) to seize by the throat:
(
c.1185
)
N’i ot chevaler ne vallet Qui tucher osast le levrer, Kar mult ert fel e paltener; N’i ad nul qui socurs li
=the little dog pinned down by the greyhound face,
Estranglé l’eust en la place
3306
(
s.xiii4/4;
MS: 1315-25
)
lé liuns egrement L’
estranglerent a escient
1419
(
1356-57;
MS: s.xivex
)
il y a gentz de moult malveise nature qe norissent grants chiens et les affaitent pur
estranler lors amis quant ils sont malades, qar ils ne vollent mie q'ils moerent de la mort naturele
349
2to decapitate (with a sword):
(
s.xiiex;
MS: c.1335
)
Le pere [n’] eust de ses fiz pité: Ambedeus ad le chef trenché: […]. ‘Sachez, dame, que […] Voz deus fiz ai
estranglé’
1113
1to suffocate, choke:
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
versez en sa large gule tant ke li gloton
estrangle
45.13
2
to suffocate, choke:
(
1160-74;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
jo sai bien qu’il s’estrangla D’un morsel que li reis seigna A Odiam, ou il mainga
ii 89.5454
1beast killed by strangulation?:
(
s.xivin;
MS: s.xiv2/4
)
mais cils qe soi abstenent des sacrifices des symulacres, de fornicacion et de saunk d’estrangleez
(var. de saunk estrangleez) (Latin: et suffocatis et sanguine)
(B) 218a
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