bederne (s.xii2)
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bederne (s.xii2)

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  FEW: ∅ Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  bederne  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  bittern n.1  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
 

The word is defined through its formal similarities with butor ( which develops an -rn variant spelling in English, albeit only attested from the seventeenth century). However, the other two words in the gloss translate as 'wren', an entirely different kind of bird.

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1orn.zool.bittern, robust wading bird of the heron family with a booming call (?): 
( MS: s.xii2 )  parrax: reibaeitre, bederne  43.90
butor 
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