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outer1 (1430-31)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: ; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  out v.; MED:  outen v.; DMLBS: ]
 
M.E.

In its entry for out v., the OED lists the obsolete sense ‘to set out (for sale, disposal, etc.), to sell’, with medieval attestation from Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s tale and the Tale of Beryn. Surprisingly, the same mercantile sense is not included in the corresponding MED entry. The verb is a hapax in Anglo-Norman, and while possibly genuine (as a borrowing from English) it is not excluded that the word is a scribal or editorial mistake for out[r]er – in which case it may be added to the more common utterer.

v.a.

1merch.to vend, offer for sale
( 1430-31 )  par cause de qele ordinaunce, lez merchantz Englis n'ount my venduz, ne poiont vendre ne outer lour drapz as merchantz alienz  iv 377
utterer 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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