cluse1 (s.xiii/xiv)
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cluse1 (s.xiii/xiv)

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  FEW:  exclusa *3,277b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF:  escluse (*)  TLF: ∅ OED:  clow n.1  MED:  clouse n.  DMLBS: ∅
skluse; 
Dutch sluys  

s.

1sluice, flood-gate: 
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  cinoglocitoria: (D*) les clusys, flodwayis (var. (L: s.xiii) suttleys, cluses;  (D: s.xiii/xiv) le encluse )  ii 134
le Cluse
1 toponym Sluys, town in Zeeland (by the estuary of the river Scheldt): 
( 1322 ) suerunt les dites biens tauntqe a le Sluys en Flaundres  240
( 1356 ) a le Skluse (l. l'Eskluse?) en Flandres  97
escluse#1 
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