1loam, clay (used in making pottery, bricks, walls, etc.):
(
MS: s.xiiim
)
pernez argill tres fort et le destemprez de vin egre, et de ce faits .j. escrictoire de sus le front
83
(
MS: s.xiii2
)
glis (terra): (A) arcil
(var. (T: s.xiii/xiv) arçail, arsil)
ii 15
(
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
le arzil dunt vos poz et vos fornais sunt fet
391.51
(
MS: s.xiv
)
argilla gallice dicitur: arsil et anglice rochestre herthe
ii 155
(
1334
)
plaisterers et autres ouverours des mures d’argill
234
(
1390-1412;
MS: s.xv1
)
jadys fut graunté […] as les Maier, alderman et burgeis de Lenne pur apprendre l’argille en vostre seignurie de Geiwode pur faire et amender certeins bosoignes
367.302.13
2agriculturalgeog.clay-rich soil:
(
MS: s.xiii
)
argilla: gallice arcil, cleilond
165
3build.plaster, daub (?):
(
MS: s.xiii1
)
gypsea: arsil, cley
ii 104
(
MS: s.xiii1
)
gipsea: (R) a gipsa arsil, arsiluse
253.161
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