fest1 (s.xii2)
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  FEW:  *first 15/ii,129a Gdf:  fest 3,770a / feste 4 3,770c / festre 1, festre 2 3,773c GdfC:  feste 2 9,613c TL: fest 3,1770 / feste 2 3,1774 DEAF:  feste 2  DMF:  faît  / faîte  TLF:  faîte  OED:  first n.1  MED:  first n.2  DMLBS:  festum 1 933c / firstum 953c
fes;  feste,  fester  

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1archit.ridge-pole (of roof): 
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Dunc vint avant, si choisid les festes De cinc cent triefs, les pignuns e les herberges  156
♦archit.ceiling-joist (?): 
( MS: s.xiiiin )  lacunaria, hoc lacunar -aris: gallice fes de la muson  15
( MS: s.xiii )  lununar (for lacunar): (A) fester  ii 53
♦archit.roof: 
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  En sun col en ad le fest levé  3413
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  overt lu fest de l’oratoire, Lu ciel perçot a la Dé gloire  15159
( MS: s.xiii )  doma: fes  ii 114
( MS: c.1250 )  Hoc tectum: feste  i 412
♦pinnacle, peak: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  pinne: fes  ii 100
2archit.cross-bar (of gallows): 
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Quatre larruns i pendirent bouche a boche; Bas ert le fest, curtes erent les furches  342
partir parmi le fest
1to split down the middle, share equally: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  par mi le fest partirunt (Latin: aequa enim pars erit) ces ki a la preie vunt od ces ki al herneis guarder remaindrunt  59
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