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trenche1 (s.xiiiex)

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The form trenk is a cross reference to the following entry:

trenche1 (s.xiiiex)

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

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  Court Bar 46
2textilecutting, piece of cloth
( 1321 ) une trenche d’escharlete  YBB Ed II xxvi 145
3geog.trench, ditch
( 1345 ) trenches fetes pur bestourner le cours (=of water)  YBB 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 [...]  Rot Parl1 iii 298
( 1418 ) lez fosses entour lez ditz boys et les bordures dez trenches d'icelx  Reg Chich 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  Rot Parl1 iv 332
a trenche
atrenche

[gdw]

See also:

trenchable  trenchanment  trenchard  trenché1  trenchefil  trencheisuns  trenchement  trenchément  trencher  trencheresse  trenchet  trenchevers  trenchivesouns  trenchour  trenchure  trenquador 
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