perchee (s.xii3/4)
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perchee (s.xii3/4)

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[ FEW: 8,280b pertica; Gdf: 6,94a perchiee; GdfC: ∅; TL: 7,715 perchet /7,716 perchiee; DEAF:  perchiee / perchot; DMF:  perchée; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 2242c pertica ]
parché,  perché,  perchet, 
pl. percheietz  198  

s.

1lengthunitperch, measure of length, especially for land of roughly five metres: 
( 1300 )  la perchee de .xvj. pés e demi de home  iii 101
( 1303 )  vint quatre perchees en longur e cink piés en latez  30-31 Ed I 327
( 1333 )  en longour .xviij. perchetz et en leour .vj. perchetz  197
( s.xiv3/4; MS: s.xivex )  Une acre de terre contient atant De fyne a fyne perchez 40 Et de travers [...] Contient l'acre fors 4 perches  294, 296
♦lengthunitperch-length, the distance of a perch, roughly five meters: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  E font i barbecans e barres cloufichees, Puis livererent as princes les places par perchees  2874
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Ainz qu'il amont se dresça, Trente perchees en avala  12354
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