garoil (c.1290)
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garoil (c.1290)

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[gdw]

  FEW:  'bannière' 23,136a Gdf:  garoil 4,236c GdfC: ∅ TL: garoil 4,195 DEAF:  garoil G334 DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  garillum 1051c
garoile,  garoyle  

This word has now been extensively treated by Frankwalt Möhren in "Onefold lexicograpy for a manifold problem?", in D.A. Trotter (ed.), Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000), 157-168 (pp. 158-161). This supersedes the older DEAF entry.

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1mil.archit.(light) palisade: 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  devant un vile en guere Afichom le garoil en tere Pur le barbecan defendre A l'assaut ke home veut rendre  268
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  Tost vus deveroient maubaillir Li maufee a lur assaillir, Car de verre est vostre garoil  48
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