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muskele (s.xii1/3)
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muskele (s.xii1/3)

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modle,  mole,  molle,  moskle,  mosle,  moule,  mouscle,  moxle;  mudla,  muhle,  muisle,  mule,  muschel,  muscle,  muskle,  musle,  muxle; 
pl. muskeliz,  musklys  (musches,  muxleu (l. muxlen?)  Lib Alb 245)  
  FEW:  musculus 6/iii,261b Gdf:  moske 5,420c GdfC:  mouscle 10,181b TL: mosle 6,320 DEAF:  mosle  DMF:  moule 2  TLF:  moule  OED:  mussel n.  MED:  muscle n.1  DMLBS:  musculus 1871a

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1zool.crustaceanmussel: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  En Inde naist en un peisun Une piere ke perle a num [...] E lu peisun apele om mosle (var. (A: s.xiiex) muisle; (D: 1276-77) molle)  Lapid 64.856
( MS: s.xii2 ) musculo: muxle, mudla  Aelfric Gloss 47.120
( s.xiv4/4 )  soit enquis de tous ceulx qui dragguent oistres ou muscles hors de saison  Blk Bk Adm 156
( 1376-77 )  Il destruit [...] le spat des oistres, musklys et d'autres pessons  Rot Parl1 ii 369
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  tauntpee, oistrees, mules, crivys et crabbes, cokkez [...]  Man lang ANTS 11.13
( MS: 1419 )  oysters, welkes, muskeles  Lib Alb 244
2mil.kind of siege-engine, mantelet: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  uns autres engins mendres, dont les combatours sunt defendu [...] Il sunt apelez musches aprés une beste de la mer; car mes ke il seient petiz, neporquant il aident as greynours de la mer  vegetius2 135.7

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