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tas1 (1155)

taas;  tass,  tasse,  taz;  thas,  thase,  thaz  
  FEW:  *tas 17,316b Gdf: GdfC:  tas 10,745a TL: tas 10,128 DEAF:  tas  DMF:  tas  TLF:  tas  OED:  tass n.1  MED:  tas(se n.2  DMLBS:  tassus 3376a

s.

stack, pile
( 1299 ) ke vous liveret a mestre Adam de Karewelle treys quarters de karbon . [...] E ly liveret deuz tasses de litere  Westm Wenlok 141
agriculturalstack, mow, rick (of hay, harvested crop, etc.)
( c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3 ) ke le forage seit bien savé, e en bon tas ou en moylons byen covers  HENLEY2 270.c23
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 ) En grange vos blez muez (M.E. mouwe), Dehors la grange vos blez tassez, Car une moye (M.E. reke) est dit en grange E une thase (M.E. stake) dehors la grange. Moiloun (M.E. reke) apellez ceo qe est en feyn, E thas dist hom ceo qe est en grein  BIBB ROTH (G) 353 and 355
( MS: s.xiiiex ) archonium, garbarum coacervatio: (A): tas (var. (B: s.xiii1) thas;  (H: s.xiiim) thaz )  TLL i 238
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm ) A luy (=Joseph in Egypt) sunt entendant hault home et baz; Quant virent vener overerunt lur taz  Genèse 2018
( c.1310 ) se obliga a mesme cesti Adam en .x. livres pur un chival; vel blees, nomement un tas de forment  Nov Narr 279
(tut) a, en un tas
1in a heap, all piled together
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 ) n'ot unc cheval, tant fust ignel ou gras, Ainz qu'il fust passé, ne fust soulent e las. Qe portent les huges, les costes e les sacs, Cil trebuchent a terre plus sovent en un tas  Rom Chev ANTS 4530
2mil.as a group, in close formation
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) Alum a els celeement Si ferum el tas sudement  Brut WACE 8484
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 ) Dis mil chevalers li suent a un tas  Rom Chev ANTS 689
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 ) il se unerunt ensemble tot en un taas  Turpin 600
mettre en tas
agriculturalto stack, stook, bind into a sheaf (harvested crop)
( s.xiv1?; MS: s.xivex ) et quyly les blees, et les mist en taas  Three Chronicles 10.197
morir a tas
to drop like flies, die in large numbers
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 ) ceo fu pur sun pecchié demeine Ke le people seoffre icele peine, Ke il morreit trestut a cas (l. tas)  Mir N-D 238.39

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See also:

tasel1  tasser 
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