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ocher (s.xiiex)

ocher (s.xiiex)

oscher  (hocschaunt)  
  FEW:  *osca 7,432a Gdf:  hoschié 4,500b / hoschier 4,500b GdfC: TL: oschier 6,1325 DEAF: DMF:  oschier  TLF:  oschier  OED:  notch v.  / oche v.  MED:  ochen v.  DMLBS:

v.intrans.

to notch, cut a groove
( 1315 )  La taile est [...] une choce muette [...] et il y ad ochis si et nous ne savoms s'il seient des boefs ou dé vachis ou de altre choce [...] et si poet homme ocher a volenté  Ed II xvii 180
to strike into, chip
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  Quibus invident carnifices in macellis suis, vendentes carnes grossas bovinas et ovinas et porcinas, aliquando lepra percussas, macheras et mensaculas scolaribus incutientes (gloss: (D) hocschaunt)  i 198.35 and ii 132.35

p.p. as a.

notched, chipped
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3 )  Merveile grant voliez faire Quant alastes me espeie traire; E quant vus le aviez sachee, si la trovastes oschee, Dunc pensastes [...] Ke Morholt ocis en esteit  434

[hp]

See also:

enocher  noche1  oche 
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