[esewer] (1171-74)
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[esewer] (1171-74)

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  FEW:  *exaquare 3,258b Gdf:  essever 3,571c GdfC: ∅ TL: essever 1 3,1303 / assever 1,592 DEAF:  essever 1 (assever)  DMF:  essever  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  esseware 807b / essewerare 807c / exaquare 826a
asewer,  assever,  assewer;  essawier,  essiwer  

v.a.

1ship.to take out of the water: 
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Dreit vers la rive vent la nef: Si seinement est essiwee, Ne fut hurtee ne blescee  805
2agriculturalto drain off (water): 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  lez terres remuer e fosser pur lez terres asecher e lez ewe [sic] asewer  282.c54
3to drain, empty (a body of water): 
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  La voil k’il sa iglise estore, Mais primes asseve la more  1776
( 1293 )  le estang fut dechey […] e le viver assewé  20-21 Ed I 417
( MS: c.1305 )  abati une sale […] et assewe .ij. vivers  15

v.n.

1ship.to come ashore, land: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Mais si tost cum il furent de la mer essawié, Le brief [...] unt al rei enveié  5011

inf._as_s.

1draining, emptying (of a body of water): 
( 1329-30 )  […] par l’assewer del viver  3-4 Ed III 795
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