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tenail1 (c.1290)
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tenail1 (c.1290)

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tennaile  
  FEW: ∅ Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: tenail 10,181 DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

The word is probably a scribal error for terrail, attested only in the Bibbesworth manuscript tradition.

s.

agriculturalbalk, ridge of unploughed land between ploughed portions: 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 ) Tant cum venés au vert terail  (ms. tenail) (var. (T: s.xivin) terayl ) (M.E. grene balke)  548 (MS)
( MS: s.xv1 ) Il ad tenon (M.E. handle) et tenail (M.E. banke)  (O) 342ra
( MS: s.xv1 ) Taunt que venez al vert tenail (M.E. landschar)  (B) 101r

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See also:

terrail 
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