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park (c.1165)

park (c.1165)

parc,  parck,  parke  
  FEW:  parricus 7,663b Gdf:  parc 5,743c / parge 5,768b GdfC:  parc 10,272c TL: parc 7,200 DEAF:  parc  DMF:  parc  TLF:  parc  OED:  park n.  MED:  park n.  DMLBS:  parcus 2 2112a / parrocus 2122a

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1ven.geog.hunting ground, enclosed land or woodland or pasture attached to a residence, stocked with game
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  La ot un bois clos d’un bel parc  marie Lais 180.800
( c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  trespas fes en parks, en vivers, […]  HENLEY2 268.c16
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  Le roy [...] counta de mot en mot coment sire Fouke le avoit desçu [...] e comaunda que tous se armassent hastivement a prendre ces felons en le parke  Fouke ANTS 50.15
( 1393-94; MS: s.xv1 )  la garde de vostre park de Bockyngfolde  Lett & Pet 64.11
2lawlivestockpen, pound, an enclosure for holding animals seized as distress
( s.xiii3/3 )  vient le seignour des avers e depece son parke e ameine ses avers  Brev Plac 89
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  porc ke est enclos e enparké en parc  Ancren2 222.1
( MS: c.1310 )  et les berbiz si longe en park detient  Nov Narr 317
3name(used as a surname)
( 1278-79 )  Petri de la Paryc  Forest Pleas 57
( 1382-83 )  Item, ressu de Johan Parke pur soun entré en la companye - .v. mars; dont abbatus .xij. s. .viij. d. pur sa robe  Goldsmiths 202

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See also:

enparkement  enparker  parco  parkeler  parker1  parker2  parkeresman 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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