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popel1 (s.xiii1)
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popel1 (s.xiii1)

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popler,  popul; 
pl. popillis,  poplris  
  FEW: ∅ Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  popel  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  popeler n.  / poppel n.  MED:  popler(e n.  DMLBS:  populus 3 2348c

The Latin word in Alexander Neckam’s De Nominibus Utensilium remains a mystery; cf. DMLBS sub alunbes (72c) ‘kind of bird’ (cf. palumbes?). In addition, it is unclear whether the vernacular glosses are Anglo-Norman or Middle English. The word re-appears in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English, mainly as popeler(e, with the sense ‘spoonbill’, and the current definition is based upon this.

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orn.zool.spoon-bill, Platalea leucorodia: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  alunbis: popler  TLL ii 101.72
( MS: s.xiii )  alambes: poplris, bleries  TLL ii 113.72
( MS: s.xiii )  alumbes: popillis  TLL ii 93.725
( MS: s.xiii )  alimbis: popler  TLL ii 119.72
( MS: s.xiii2 )  alunbes: popel (var. (L: s.xiii/xiv) popul)  TLL ii 72.72

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