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raille (s.xii3/4)
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raille (s.xii3/4)

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raele,  raile,  rayle,  raylle;  reile,  reille,  rele  (racle (l. raele)  Build salz 259 );
pl. railis  
  FEW:  radula 10,28a / regula 10,217a Gdf:  reille 6,754b GdfC: ∅ TL: reille 8,653 DEAF:  reille  DMF:  raille 1   / reille  TLF:  rail  OED:  rail n.2  MED:  raile n.  DMLBS:  railla 2650b / regula 2 2727a

The form racle was given a separate entry in AND1, but does not exist: it stemmed from a misreading of an e as a c. As a result, the DEAFpré entry of racle2, based solely upon the erroneous AND1 entry, should be removed.

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1bar, rail, horizontal pole: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Desus l'orle d'une fosse al travers d'une reille, Fet danz Nectanabus chescune nuit sa veille  Rom Chev ANTS 477
♦archit.beam (?): 
( 1408-09 )  Item pur forkis et railis et binding roddis .vj. s. .ij. d.  Mch Tayl Accs1 10 Henry IV
( 1415-16 )  Item pur railis, pewes et ponchouns pur le stalle et pur portage - .iiij. s. .iiij. d.  Mch Tayl Accs1 3 Henry V
♦archit.joist, timber on which floorboards are nailed: 
( 1380 )  quarante petites cheisnes appellez sparres, pur ent faire railles a giser desouz les tables pur layre, autrement dit un flore d'une grande chambre  GAUNT2 i 51.132
♦archit.hanging-rail: 
( 1428 )  lez raeles pur lez dosers (hanging in the hall of justice in Carmarthen)  Build salz 259
2archit.railing used as a barrier or support: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  si vit un grant paleiz; Fort fu a reille, qu'il ne pot pel tolir  Ch Guill 391
( 1372 )  railles et verges busoignables pur le raillement de noz gardeins  GAUNT1 ii 60.998
( 1497-98 )  pro factura lez raylez ac le flyttung eorundem  Durham i 100
♦ship.bulwark, railing of a ship: 
( 1347-50 )  bemes, transyns, ryvesyngges, railes et chokkes pur le chastel de Cogg Johan  Sandahl Sea i 185
( 1405-10 )  [...] pro factura de les rayles del hyndercastell bargie predicte [...]  Sandahl Sea i 201
3decor.bar, stripe: 
( 1397 )  mon vestment de satyn blank, embroudez d'or, dont l’overage est un raille passant parmye corone d'or  Test Ebor i 227
4chessline, row on a chessboard: 
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiiiex )  Qu'en une reile ne seit commons Le rei vermeil od ses pouns  Eschez ANTS 12.133
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiv1 )  Chescoun de euz (=rooks, castles) le tret de rok avera, Mes nul de euz la rele de altre passera  Eschez ANTS 49.1811
5rule, principle: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Qe de touz, de hauz e de bas, Seit iceste vertu itale Tenue a reille generale  Dial Greg SATF 12068
♦monasticrule, code of discipline observed by a religious order: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  nostre ordre ert ital, E la reille de la meison, Q’enz en la congregation Onc a nuli [...] Proprieté ne lut aveir  Dial Greg SATF 19699

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See also:

raillement  railler  regle  reule1 
This is an AND2 Phase 5 (R-S) entry. © 2018-21 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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