estreper (s.xii1)
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estreper (s.xii1)

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  FEW:  exstirpare 3,321b Gdf:  estreper 3,650c GdfC: ∅ TL: estreper 3,1475 DEAF:  estreper  DMF:  étraper  TLF:  étraper  OED:  estrepe v.  MED:  strepen v.  DMLBS:  estrepare 809b / exstirpare 870b
estirper;  estrepper;  estriper,  estripper,  estroper  

v.a.

1 to pull out, uproot: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Nen out remés rien a guaster, Ne cep ne vinne a estreper  10125
( s.xv1/4 ) esracher, essartir, estirper (Latin: evellere)  120
♦ to destroy, lay to waste (an area of vegetation): 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Lor vingnes et lor boiz fist li roiz estreper et lor maisons ardoir et lor chasteaux gaster  i 5.85
2to despoil, plunder: 
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Vos granz burcs fera estreper E vos citez vus ardera  3522
♦ law (as a tenant) to estrepe, strip or waste land or property deliberately: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  par issi qe nous ne faceum estreper ne gaster les tenemenz  i 36
( 1293 )  Vynt le baylyf e lur devya a estreper le mees  20-21 Ed I 381
( 1312 ) Geffrey de Seynt Edmund porta soun bref devers une Margerie, etc. et dit depus q'il avoit sa seisine certein jour etc. et il avoit estripé les mesouns etc. Margerie ne vynt point  Ed II xii 193
( 1336 )  les fossés et les hayes [...] ount touz abatuz et estropés et emportez  242
( 1397 )  en mesme le temps, si estreperent eux toutz ses maners  iii 361
estreper fors
1to destroy: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Nient ne estreperent (Latin: exterminaverunt) fors les pueples  197.CV.33

v.n.

1to break loose, detach: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  le gardein de la tumbe [le] susleveit, E tantost les nerfs ke estreint =contracted esteient Estreperent cum si il rumpeient Tant cum les membres retreite esteient K'en langur tant lungement esteient  M352

p.p._as_a.

1 (of an area of vegetation) destroyed, laid to waste: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Mes lur champs unt perdu ot trestut lur furment, Lur gardins estrepez de cele male gent  1677
2 law (of land or property) streped, deliberately stripped or wasted by the tenant: 
( 1313-14 ) Spigurnel: dit q'il ne recovereit pas damages sinon mesons estrippés et boys et issues de la terre per iudicium etc.  Ed II viii 64
estrep  estrepement  streper 
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