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poutre (s.xii4/4)
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The form pautre is a cross reference to the following entry:

poutre (s.xii4/4)

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poustre  (pantre (l. pautre)  Build salz 204)  
  FEW:  pulliter 9,530a Gdf:  poutre 6,360a GdfC:  poutre 10,397a TL: poutre 7,1673 DEAF:  poutre  DMF:  poutre  TLF:  poutre  OED:  pautre n.  MED:  pautre n.  DMLBS:  putura 2 2590c

According to the OED (Third Edition, 2005), the sense ‘beam, joist’ is a transferred use of ‘filly’, rather than a separate word. Consequently AND1’s two separate articles are now treated as one.

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1horsesfemalezool.filly, female foal, young mare: 
( MS: s.xii4/4 )  Viel estalon fait jone poutre peire  Prov vil 13.352
( c.1290; MS: s.xivin )  E au piler desouz le poutre De chevestre liez le poutre (M.E. a filie)  BIBB ROTH (T) 714
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Destré, jument et poutre (M.E. Stede, mere and merecolt — etatis .iij. annorum)  Nominale 714
( 1321-22 )  seisaunte jumentes portauntes, quatrevyntz poleyns maales e poutres, pristrent e enchaterent  Rot Parl1 i 397
2archit.wall-plate, horizontal beam in or on a wall to support joists or rafters: 
( c.1290; MS: s.xivin )  Sus la mesere en travers outre Amount le celer metez le poutre (M.E. a wyvertre)  BIBB ROTH (T) 712
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Piler desouz le poutre (M.E. Post under the gistetree)  Nominale 452
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  Sur la meissere en travers oultre Amoun (M.E. Above) le celer mettez poutre  Fem2 71

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See also:

poutrel 
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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