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thaby (1356-57)
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thaby (1356-57)

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cabi,  taly  
  FEW: ∅ Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

The spelling variations suggest that this exotic word must have puzzled scribes. The term may be related to tabashir, a Persian word for the secretions formed in the joints of bamboo; cf. Michael C. Seymour, The Egerton Version of Mandeville’s Travels, Early English Text Society O.S. 336, Oxford, 2010, p. 193 (note 103/27).

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bot.tall sort of reed, possibly bamboo: 
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex ) En celle lac (=in Banjarmasin, southern coast of Borneo) croissent arundines, ces sont kannes q'ils appellent thaby (var. (Lei: s.xvin) taly;  (Lo9: s.xv) cabi ) qe ount .xxx. toises ou plus de long. Et de ces kannes fait homme belles maisouns  Mandeville 346

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