fest1 (s.xii2)
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fest1 (s.xii2)

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

s.

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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