esquassure (s.xii/xiii)

esquassure (s.xii/xiii)

  FEW:  quassare *2/ii,1430a Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  casser (escasseüre)  DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:
equacheure,  equachure,  equasure;  escachure,  esquachure;   

s.

1fact of being crushed
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Le us alocha issy ke il chey Sur l’enfaunt e tut le covery [...]. Le us pesaunt remuerent, L’enfaunt tut seyn y troverent, Ne remyst sygne de esquassure, Ne merk ne enpeynte de blesçure  7171
2erasure, blotting out
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  Scriptor [...] habeat dentem verris sive apri ad polliendum pergamenum ut non liquescat litera sive litura gloss: equasure (var. (TLL ii 117.168: s.xiii) equachure; (TLL ii 79.168 (D): s.xiii/xiv) esquachure;  (TLL ii 79.168 (L): s.xiii/xiv) equacheure ) facta sit [...] vel literas scriptas cancellaverit  i 189.168 and ii 90.168
( s.xiii )  litura: escachure  169.39
esquas  esquasser  squassure 
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