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(
s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4
)
Mais les .ij. braz ot si plaissiez Que il nes pot amunt lever
Conceptionwace 1686
2to close off with a hedge or barrier of interwoven branches or treetrunks:
(
1155; MS: s.xiii4/4
)(when the Saxons have fled into the woods)Artur [...] D’une part fist le bois trenchier E bien espessement plaissier, Arbre sur arbre traverser, E trunc sur trunc fist encroer
BrutWACE 9196
(
c.1230; MS: s.xiiiex
)
Les pas firent partut plesser Pur Les Engleis desturber
Dermot2 1576
(
1171-74; MS: c.1200
)
Se sunt del tut suzmis a laie poesté; Quel part que li venz turt, se plessent od l'or
Becket1 4810
p.p. as a.
mains pleites
hands clasped, with fingers interwoven:
(
c.1136-65; MS: c.1200
)
Haie chose sunt a Dé Tuit orgeillos e surquidé; Se mains pleites alquns esteit, Innocent pur ço ne serreit (Latin: si manu ad manum fuerit, non erit innocens)Salemon 9223
plesser1 (s.xii2/4)