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escluse1 (s.xii2)
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escluse1 (s.xii2)

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excluse;  eclus,  ecluse,  escluz  (encluse)  
  FEW:  exclusa 3,277b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  escluse 9,517b TL: escluse 3,932 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  écluse  TLF:  écluse  OED:  sluice n.  MED:  scluse n.  DMLBS:  excludere (exclusus) 833c

s.

1sluice, floodgate: 
( MS: s.xiii/xiv ) cinoglocitoria: (D) le encluse  TLL ii 134.48
( MS: c.1310 )  par les escluses de cel molin l’eawe est si retenu qe i […]  Nov Narr 202
( 1347-48 )  les dites terres ne poeint estre sauvez sinoun par une excluse de la dite ewe de mier  Rot Parl1 ii 210
2geog.pool (?): 
( s.xii2; MS: 1284-90 )  Dites [...] Que estes prové tricheur Que rien ne savez deviner Mais fauseries afermer, Que ad el fonz de cele escluse Que vostre overayne si vous nuse?  Brut Coll Arms 170
l'Escluse, les Escluses
toponymSluys, town in Zeeland (by the estuary of the river Scheldt): 
( 1305 )  des Escluses en Flaundres tanque en Engleterre  Rot Parl1 i 196
( 1435 )  ore dischargent lour niefs et vesselx a l’Escluse en Flaundres  Rot Parl1 iv 492

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cluse1 
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