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torche1 (c.1095)
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torche1 (c.1095)

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torce,  torge,  torke, 
(pl torceys)  
  FEW:  torques 13/ii,105b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  torche 10,777a TL: torche 10,408  / torge 10,417 DEAF:  torche  DMF:  torche  TLF:  torche  OED:  torch n.  MED:  torche n.  DMLBS:  torcha 3453c

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1domestictorch, candle or lamp made of twisted tow dipped in pitch, wax or tallow: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Tut ensi va de mun cors Cum d'une torche eslume[e]  Rom 15 (Dd.10.31) 246.iii.26
( 1307? )  .xxiiij. chaundeles et .vj. torceys  King’s Bench i cl
( a.1399 )    graunte plenté des torches de cire illuminez    Anon Chr1 102.11
( 1415 )  .xxiiij. poveres homes [...] portant chescun d'eux une torche de cere  Reg Chich ii 15
( 1431 )  .xxiiij. poveres hommes soient vestus chescun homme une hopelond et une chaperon de noire portant chescun d’eux un torche  Reg Chich ii 458
2twist, whirl of smoke: 
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Sicut virgula fumi, set ebreus dicit ibi gallice ‘torche’ quasi ‘tortura’ quoniam fumus ascenditur et torquetur in girum  Dictionnaire hébreu 191.44
3bunch of hay, straw, hemp, twisted together: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Li malvais qui quidierent le rei servir a gré, E garçuns e putains, unt saint Thomas hué E derochié de torges  Becket1 1943
( MS: s.xiiiex )  busias: torches  TLL i 53
4 name (used as a surname): 
( c.1095 )  Alueue Torce  Family Names Torch
a grant torche
in great swathes, abundantly: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Mais si esteit coverte cele robe chevrine, E desus e desuz, de menue vermine, Qu'a granz torches i ert par tut, e a traine  Becket1 5808
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  La vermine i esteit a torkes (var. (P: s.xiii1) a torches ) et a tors, Qui ne laissout aveir a sa char nul repos  Becket1 3939
de torche
twisted together: 
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  Il est seinte de une seynture de la lute parfeyré, E les barres si sont mis de torche (var. (O: s.xivm) cresche ) amenee  BOZ Char 23.414

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See also:

torchaz  torcheberer  torcheholder  torchelun  torcher  torcherun  torchette  torchis  torchun 
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