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rasture1 (s.xiii2/4)

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rasture1 (s.xiii2/4)

 
  FEW:  *rasitoria 10,90a Gdf: GdfC:  rature 10,488c TL: rasture 8,329 DEAF:  rastoire (rasture)  DMF:  rature  TLF:  rature  OED:  raster n.1  MED:  raster n.  DMLBS:  rasura (rastura) 2658b

The usage in Mir Just 24, ‘par brusure ou rasture de os’, is perhaps unexpected, where the word is translated loosely as ‘crushing’ by its editor. It is not out of the question that the word here is a corruption of fracture (cf. fraiture), as a synonym to brusure.

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1(action of) scraping, chafing
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Mahain est defaute de membre ou afebleure par brusure ou rasture de os de homme  Mir Just 24
lawerasure, erasing of text from a document by scraping the surface of the parchment
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  defendoms a touz corouners [...] que nul [...] ne rasture ne chaunge ne nule manere de fraude ne face en ses roules  BRITT i 14.11
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  (a commission) purra estre viciouse […] purceo q’il i ad rasture ou entreligneire ou deverseté de meins  Mir Just 94
2coll.scrapings, shavings
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  les viles de l'estomac si sont reses et aperent en les egestions unes pelettes semblables a rasture de parchemin  A-N Med i 221
( MS: s.xiii2 )  Et qui met de le rasture du jaet dedens l'iaue et la boive [...]  Lapid 146.XVIII 13
( MS: s.xv )  Quysez lez rasturez dez quyrs qe le correour rent en ewe tant q’il soit auxi come emplastre  Five Med MSS 121.E37

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See also:

ras3  rarure  rasel  raser  rastuer  rasur  rasure1  raure  rere1 
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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