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mil.to mine, dig under (to gain access to a besieged fortress):
(
1307; MS: 1307-15
)
dunc vint Sire Wiliame de Muntchensi e asist le chastel de Droscelan, e fist miner lé mours; e il memes ala si pres de le mour ke le mour chei sur li e sur autres plusours e murirent iloec
Reis Engl1 306.16
(
1306
)
e nous e nos auncestres [...] parmy totes les terres [...] ont myné a lour volunté [...], e issint minames nous com bien nous lust
YBB 33-35 Ed I 205
(
1373
)
Issint que l'avantdit William puisse myner et fower, pur les dites mynes quere
Foedera1 iii 986
(
1379-80
)
Il plest au roi qe chescun puisse myner et fouer deinz son propre soil
Rot Parl1 iii 86.43
2mil.to mine, dig a tunnel (to gain access to a besieged fortress):
(
a.1399; MS: a.1399
)
comencerount a myner par trois noetes (=under Berwick Castle)Anon Chr1 125.26
sbst. inf.
mil.mining, sapping (to gain access to a besieged fortress):
(
1381
)
Item, paié [...] a .iv. minours [...] pur miner en eyde de conquest mesme le tour
Foedera1 iv 131
miner1 (1306)