trenche1 (s.xiiiex)

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trenche1 (s.xiiiex)

[gdw]

[FEW: 13/ii,279a *trinicare; Gdf: 8,10b tranche; GdfC: 10,798b tranche; TL: 10,580 trenche; DEAF:  trenchier 1 (trenche); DMF:  tranche; TLF:  tranche 1; OED:  trench n.; MED:  trench n.; DMLBS: 3494a trenchum]
trench,  trenk  

It is not always possible to establish a distinction between this word and trenché1, and a number of attestations may be read both ways.

s.

1cutting down, truncating
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 ) [...] e bien reconust cel trenche =of a boundary e la quantité de l’avantdite devise  46
2textilecutting, piece of cloth
( 1321 ) une trenche d’escharlete  Ed II xxvi 145
3geog.trench, ditch
( 1345 ) trenches fetes pur bestourner le cours =of water  19 Ed III 179
( 1391 ) [...] as quelles molyn et gorce partie de l'eawe de Trent, par un trenche, par tout le dit temps ad coru [...]  iii 298
( 1418 ) lez fosses entour lez ditz boys et les bordures dez trenches d'icelx  ii 145
( 1427 )  d'enquerrer, redresser et amender, toutz les defautes en la dit eawe esteantz, sibien par diverses trenches hors de dit eawe faitz  iv 332
a trenche
atrenche
trenchable  trenchanment  trenché#1  trenchefil  trencheisuns  trenchement  trenchément  trencher  trencheresse  trenchet  trenchevers  trenchivesouns  trenchour  trenchure  trenquador 
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