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selion (c.1285)

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selion (c.1285)

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seilion, seilloun, seillun, seilun; selioun, sellione; seylloun, seylloyn, seylun, seylyon; silioun, sillion; soilom

FEW: *selj 11,417a Gdf: seillon 2 7,365a GdfC: sillon 10,676a TL: seillon 9,356 DEAF: seil (seillon) DMF: seillon 2 / sillon TLF: sillon OED: selion n. MED: selion n. DMLBS: selio 3009c

The sense ‘joist’ is unique to the Bibbesworth text tradition. A similar semantic shift is evident in solive.

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1 unit agricultural selion, narrow strip of ploughland marked by a furrow on either side:

( a.1250 ) .iiij. seilluns qui extenduntur usque ad cheminum ferratum DMLBS sub cheminum

( c.1285; MS: c.1312 ) Fetes arrer deus seilluns en un jour e semez l’un [...] HENLEY² 324.c62

( 1292-93 ) .xxvj. selions de terre Sel Bills Eyre 45

( 1310-11 ) c'est un sillion qe contint en sei .vj. acres solom les usages du pais YBB Ed II vi 26

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: 1382 ) Et en selioun gisont rais (M.E. And in londes lyn forewys) Nominale 329

2 agricultural furrow, land turned over by the plough:

( c.1325; MS: c.1325 ) Homme que met meyn desure la cue de une charrue et regarde tuz jours par derere, jamés beu selion ne errat Bible Holkham 38.42.23

( MS: s.xiv¹ ) La ou est l’areine ouan, serra le silioun l’autre an Prov inéd 434.10

( MS: s.xv ) prenge de ewe ke esta sur la racynne de chenne u la chenne ad esté colpé [...] u ewe de plue ke esta en pes en aukun seilun Five Med MSS 128.E129

3 archit. joist, horizontal beam for supporting a floor:

( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 ) Trestuz les seillouns (M.E. gistes) (var. (T: s.xivⁱⁿ) soulyves) mettez outre, E desuz les seillouns la plauncié BIBB ROTH (G) 954-55

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: 1382 ) Et bons selions (M.E. gistes) mettez outre Nominale 454

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