bestaille (s.xiii2)

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bestaille (s.xiii2)

[ FEW: 1,341a bestia; Gdf: 1,636c bestaille /1,638a bestiallle; GdfC: 8,320a bestail; TL: 1,948 bestail /1,948 bestaille; DEAF:  beste (bestail) / beste (bestaille); DMF:  bétaille; TLF:  bétail; OED:  bestial n. 1; MED:  bestail n.; DMLBS: 195c bestiarius ]
bestail,  bestaile;  bestaill,  bestaille;  bestali,  betali; 
pl. bestaulx,  bestaux,  batail  58ra
pl. bestiale  ii 44  

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1zool.livestockmammalscattle
( MS: s.xiii2 )  pecoris: de betaly  ii 3
( MS: s.xiii2 )  pecus: bestaly(l)z  ii 3
( 1314 )  Le priour ad en cele pasture plus de bestaile et augmaile qe a ly apent avere  Ed II xvi 108
( MS: s.xiv2/3 )  vaches et aultre bestailles assez  478.19
( 1330 )  bledz, feyn, bestaille  i 262.iii
( 1336 )  plus de cent de ses autres grasses bestailes [...] dont la greyndre partie ad esté pris hors de ses charreues gaynauntz sa terre  244
2zool.mammalsdraught animal
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  Home quant en honur esteit, il ne se entendeit, eynz se confurma a bestaille (Latin: comparatus est jumentis)  23
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