astre1 (c.1250)
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astre1 (c.1250)

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  FEW:  ostrakon 7,440a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  astre 1 8,220b TL: aistre 1,263 / astre 1,612 DEAF:  astre 1  DMF:  âtre 1  TLF:  âtre 1  OED:  astre n.  MED:  aster n.  DMLBS:  astrum 2 148b
hastier,  heysté,  heyster  

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1archit.domestichearth: 
( MS: c.1250 )  hic caminus: astre vel chimenee  i 421
( MS: s.xiiiex )  focus:(C) astre  ii 165
( 1425 )  Si jeo graunt comen de estovers ou comen de turbarie a un home a son meason et pur son hastier en tiel ville, et in rei veritate le graunté n’ad pas meason ne hastier en tiel ville [...]  i 7
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  ephicausteria gallice: aster  ii 148.54
♦archit.taxhearth, dwelling (as a unit subject to taxation): 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  chescun communer qi ad astre en mesme la vile de N. deyve doner al avauntdit Johan une geline par an  i 392
( 1306 )  fait nombrer […] trestouz les astres de la terre […] et demande de chescun astre un denier  i 220
2lawlathe (administrative district in Kent): 
( 1315 )  nous sumes reseauntz deinz le astre le roy de Caunterborie  Ed II xvii 80
♦lawlocal court or assembly of the lathe: 
( 1315 )  Sil presenter al hastre le roy les articles qe appendent a la vewe  Ed II xvii 81
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