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trussel (1121-35)

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

trussel (1121-35)

trosel,  trosele,  trossel,  trosselle;  troussel;  trusel,  trussell,  trusselle  (trasselle;  trescel,  tresel,  tressal,  tressel,  tresselle ),
pl. troseus,  trosseaus;  truseus,  trussaus,  trusseaus,  trusseus,  trusseux  (trenceaus (l. treuceaus?)  bibb MS (O) 340rb treseus,  tresseaus,  tresseus)  
  FEW:  torquere 13/ii,93b Gdf:  toursel 7,776c GdfC:  troussel 10,815c TL: torsel 10,446 DEAF:  torser (torsel)  DMF:  trousseau  TLF:  trousseau  OED:  trousseau n.1  / trussel n.  MED:  trussel n.  DMLBS:  trussellus 3516b

The editor of Bibbesworth's Tretiz interprets the form in tres- as a variant spelling for trestel (AND ) in Bibb Roth (T) 271 and (G) 560, meaning a stack of grain 'constructed like a trestle' (see Bibb Roth p.34 n.7 and p.79 n.18). However, the semantic link to trestel meaning 'a support for boards or planks serving as a tabletop' is unclear, and there is no further evidence of this word ever being used with reference to a stook of grain.

The variant reading of trussel in manuscripts B, Y and C suggests that this word could be interpreted as a deviant (with vowel shift) of this entry. Other tres- forms for trussel can be found outside the Tretiz tradition (see the London Mun Coll example). The word trussel (as does trusse) is used in an agricultural context for a 'truss, a bale of hay' (see trusse1), which sense, in the Bibbesworth text tradition, seems to have become extended to 'sheafs of grain stacked together', as suggested by the Middle English glosses stack, shok, stok and knicche (see MED stak n., shok n., stok n.1, knicche n.).

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1bag, pouch, receptacle made of flexible material
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Puis al terz jur trussels  (ms. truverez) U petit costerels Sur les dos des jumenz Lur lient fermement  Best ants 1073
( c.1185; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  Dreit a l’issir d'une sapee Ad choisi deus hommes erranz Qui portoent deus trussels granz  Proth ANTS 2584
( MS: s.xiiiex )  involucrum: (D) gallice trusse  TLL ii 171
handbag, travelling bag or wallet
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  mantica: (D) trusel (var. )  TLL ii 82.64
fig. theol.burden, weight
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Cest est le cunseil: descharge sei del fardel de felunie, gette cel trussel aval desuz ses pez  Joshua Sermons ii 34
( 1268; MS: c.1300 )  lur coveitise est [si] forte Ke trussez les meine geskes a la porte D'enfern, ou [...] trebucher Covient l'alme od le trussel  Lum Lais ANTS 3661
2trunk, box, chest
( c.1185; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  Les locs de lor trossels desere, Besanz i trove e anels  Proth ANTS 2608
3 bundle, bunch, parcel of bundled baggage, goods (etc.)
( MS: s.xii4/4 )  'Se dunc,' fait il, 'esteie la, Mes trussaus, pot estre, i vendraie Et qui[t] que jo i guainnereie'  Floire ants 925
( MS: s.xiii )  trussulam: trosele  TLL ii 120.64
( MS: s.xiiiex )  trusullas; (C) troseus  TLL ii 127.11
( 1303 )  De chescon trussel cordé, .iiij. d.; De trussel saunz corde, .ij. d.  Gras Customs 163
( 1378 )  de chescune trussell quecumque merchandise i soit, e de chescune chose en ceste bille noon specifié ne mencion fait, vendu a value .v. s. un dener  Rot Parl1 iii 53
unit textile merch. bundle, bound parcel of cloth
( 1216-20; MS: 1419 )  De chescun trusselle de draps issauntz outre meer par estraunge, petit ou graunt, .iiij. deniers  Lib Alb 237
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Marchantz qi a Londres repeirent, et aportent dras, linges e langes, ne poent vendre fors treis jours en la symeyne, le lundi, mardi et mekerdi, deqes a noune, e donk deit realier ses tressals (Latin: debent religare trussellos), et rien ne vendre auant del autre lundi  London Mun Coll 717
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1/3 )    de chescun trussel ou barde de drap [...] lyé de cordes seyt pris .iiij. d.  Dom Gip 186
agriculturalunit truss, bale (of hay etc.)
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Dedenz un troussel d'erbe l'a fait envoleper e ben lié et torchiez  Rom de Rou wace i 95.2422
agricultural stack, stook, sheaves of grain stacked together
( c.1290; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ci vient volaunt un restel Si se trait vers ceo trussel (var. tresel ) (M.E. stak (B), shocke (Y, C), a stak of corn (T)) Car mult mieux plest au restel Envirouner un haut trussel (var. (T: s.xivin) tresel;  (G: 1307-25) trescel ) (M.E. þe stouk (T)), Qe nul biau treit de la vyele Ou nule note de frestele  bibb MS (Y) 19v
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Homme chastre porcel Et de garbis fait tresselle (M.E. And of schewes makith schockes)  Nominale 313
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  Et mult pleast un petit reistele Avironer un grant trasselle (M.E. And much hit plesuþ a lytyl wrenne To go aboute a gret stok)  Fem2 58.8
4implementfinan.curr. trussel, punch for making the impression on the upper side of coin
( 1300 )  Vous enveyames del dit eschekier [...] deux peire de cuyns noveaux en .vj. peces. E puis [...] une peire nove en treis peces, c'est a savoir a chescone peire une pile e .ij. trusseux  OED pile n.2 (etym.)
( 1320 )  il ly graunta ses coignes pur monee faire [...] e [...] ly graunta il treis peces [...] que sunt apellez trusseux [...] si ly plest voile comaunder qe les treis trusseus avaunditz lui seient liverez arere  Northern Pet 251
5ship.implement truss, tackle that secures the yard to the mast
( 1338 )  .iij. ankers, .iij. cables, .iiij. haucers, .v. trusseux, la bonet del trief  Rot Parl1 ii 100
6 used as a surname
( 1169 )  Galfridus Trussel  Pipe Roll x 69
trussel derere
horsesequit. hind-bow, cantle, back of a saddle (to which loads can be secured)
( MS: s.xiii1 )  postellas: (D) truseus derere  Gloss Nequam1 242.64
trussel devant
horsesequit. saddle-bow, pommel, front of a saddle (to which loads can be secured)
( MS: s.xiii1 )  antellas: (D) truseus devant  Gloss Nequam1 242.64
mettre en trussel
agricultural to stack, stook, bind into a sheaf (harvested crop)
( c.1290; MS: s.xv1 )  E en tresseaus (M.E. kencches) (var. (A: s.xiv1/4) tresseus;  (P: s.xiv1) treseus;  (8: 1300) tresels ) voz garbes metez  bibb MS (B) 97v

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See also:

trusse1  trussoire  trusseparail  trussepoleige  trusser  trusserope  trusseure  trussing  trussun 
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