We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
areste1 (s.xii3/4)

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

areste1 (s.xii3/4)

arest;  hareit  
  FEW:  arista 25,221a Gdf:  areste 1 1,392b GdfC:  areste 8,177a TL: areste 2  DEAF: DMF:  arête  TLF:  arête 1  OED: MED: DMLBS:  arista 125b

s.

bot.awn, beard (of wheat)
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Ne valt trenchant espié plus qe escherde ou areste  Rom Chev ANTS 7202
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  En graunge gardez vous des arestez (M.E. anenes, eyles)  BIBB ROTH (G) 356
( MS: s.xiii2 )  aristas: arest .s. heile  TLL ii 25
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  (food for horses should be) medlé ové un poy de paille de forment […] e nent ové paille de orge pur ce q’il i a trop de arestes qe hovissent (var. lynereyent) les bouches des chivaus  HENLEY2 330.c81
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  […] venter fourment, severir les arestes et la paille hors des nettes greines  Ancren1 187.9
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  F[emme] pur areste d’orge grate (M.E. W[oman] for awne of barly clawith)  Nominale 121
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  En graunge gardez vous de hareit (M.E. eilez)  Fem2 30.8
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
hareit