mammalszool.to farrow, (of a sow) to give birth to:
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: c.1300
)
la troie deit purceler par .ij. fez en l’an, a chescune feez au meyns .vij. purceaus
HENLEY1 74
mammalszool.(of a sow) produce a litter, farrow:
(
c.1165;
MS: s.xiii2
)
Une troie que preinz esteit [...] se hastast de purceler
MARIE Fables 120.6
(
c.1270;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
lez trues, quant il unt porceles
(l. porcelés) [...]
HENLEY2 284.c59
(
c.1285;
MS: c.1312
)
En yver les
(=swine) sustenez q’il ne perissent, e q’il eyent pouer de foyner
(var. purceller; fower; forner)
HENLEY2 334 (var.)
mammalszool.(of a sow) ability to produce a litter, farrow:
(
c.1285;
MS: c.1312
)
vos autres porcs femeles fetes saner
(M.E. your other sowes have spayed) q’il perdent lur purcelers
(M.E. so that they lose their ability to farrow))
HENLEY2 334.c93
porceler (c.1165)