encroer (1121-25)
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encroer (1121-25)

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[ FEW: 16,397a *krôk; Gdf: 3,123a encroer; GdfC: ∅; TL: 3,267 encröer; DEAF: ∅; DMF:  encrouer; TLF:  encrouer; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
encroier  

v.a.

1to affix, hang, attach: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Ore ad Alisandre son serment sauvé; Fet les ad conustre, e haut sunt encroé  3769
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Desque vus aiez la cité veu alumer [...] A unes hautes furches lui meismes encroer  619
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  A clous le (=J.C.) afferma, encroa e pendi, De espines curuna  237

p.p._as_a.

1 affixed, hung, attached: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 ) (in Hell:) Par lundi e nuit e jurn En la roe sui en tresturn, E jo chaitis, encroez enz  1355
♦perched: 
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  il l’unt trové (=the tree) [...] Sur un munt haut encroé, Dunt ja mes ne serra jeté Par home  7490
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