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picher (s.xii2)

The form piger is a cross reference to the following entry:

picher (s.xii2)

picer,  pichier,  piger,  pycher  
  FEW:  bikos 1,361b Gdf:  pichier 6,142 GdfC: TL: pichier 7,874 DEAF:  pichier  DMF:  pichier  TLF: OED:  pitcher n.1  MED:  pitcher(e n.  DMLBS:  pichera 2274b

s.

1domesticpitcher, jug, large vessel for pouring liquids
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  vaissele de meinte baillie, poz e chanes e pichers  Liv Reis1 128
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Quant serrunt boilli, les devez couler Parmi un drap e les poser En un vessel de tere fet, Mut espés, novel e net, En un picher u en pepin  Nov Chir ANTS 1428
( c.1275; MS: c.1275 )  chescun vendur de harang en quarame a detail doit al roi de custume .vj. d., e as baillifs un picher de vin  Winchester2 32.34
( MS: s.xv )  Pernez une poygné de la milueyne escorce de fresnie [...] E [metez] la ens un piger net de deus galuns  Five Med MSS 146.E305
unitvolume(as a liquid measure) pitcherful
( 1275-1300 )  par la ou eus soleyent prendre de la botelerye deus galons de vyn e deus de cervayse eus ne prenent mes ke un pycher de vyn e un autre de cervayse  TNA SC 8/196/9797
herald.representation of a pitcher, jug
( 1300; MS: s.xiv1 )  De goules furent trois pichier En son escu de argent luisant, En le ourle noire li besant  Eight Rolls 119.809
2astron.Aquarius, sign of the Zodiac represented by a water-carrier and his jug
( 1256; MS: c.1300 )  dusz meis del kalender, Ki parmi l'an sunt establi, De dusze signes sunt garni [...]: Picher, Peysun e Multun, Tor, Jemeals [...]  RAUF ANTS 1048

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See also:

biker  piché  picheret  picherhous  pitere 
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