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garite (s.xiiim)

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

garite (s.xiiim)

gareit,  garet,  garett,  garette,  garitte;  garret,  garrette,  garrite, 
pl. garitis,  garritis,  garrytis,  garyz  
  FEW:  *warjan 17,526b Gdf: GdfC:  guarite 9,733a TL: garite 4,173 DEAF:  garir (garite) G272 DMF:  guérite  TLF:  guérite  OED:  garret n.1  MED:  garite n.  DMLBS:  garita 1052a

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1archit.turret, watchtower
( 1379 )  Nous vous mandons que des issues de vostre receite facez coverir le garet sur le pount de nostre chastel de Bolyngbrok  GAUNT2 i 44.109
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  le roy mesmes alast a une haute garett de la Toure pur veer le feu  Anon Chr1 144.5
2mantlet, penthouse (movable shelter to protect soldiers besieging a fortified place)
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  A la porte del secunde baile sunt plusurs hastee: La sei diffendent Romeignes, la port ont bien barree; Mais tote la primer baile fu des Sarrazins poeplee, Si abatent les garrettes tote contreval luy fossee  Dest Rome1 1058
( MS: s.xiii ) In civitate Tholose, nondum sedato tumultu belli, vidi antemuralia [...], sues et vineas (gloss: (L) garrites) (var. (C: s.xiiiex) garites;  (D: s.xiii/xiv) vines;  (D*: s.xiii/xiv) garrytis ) et cados versatiles  TLL i 199.49 and ii 135.49
( MS: s.xiii2 )  Assint etiem arietes et vinee, vites (gloss: (C) garyz) (var. (L: s.xiii/xiv) garritis; (D: s.xiii/xiv) garitis), garites, baliste, trabarie, crates et alie machine belli  TLL ii 71.69
3archit.garret (room on the uppermost floor of a house)
( 1342 )  Et sur les deux estages desouthe l’un somet dedeinz fra une garite  Build salz 434
( 1374 )  le dit tour en le chaumbre q'est appellé le garret  GAUNT1 ii 246
( 1410-11 ) Pur un garet en la maison del hosier .xij. d.  Mch Tayl Accs2 290 (12 Henry IV)

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See also:

garir1 
This is an AND2 Phase 2 (F-H) entry. © 2006-2008 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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