1lawrescue, forcible recovery of property or goods:
(
c.1150; MS: s.xii3/4
)
Cil ki aveir rescut, u chevals u bos u vaches [...], que est forfeng apelé en engleis, cil kis claimed, durrad [al provost] pur la rescussiun (var. escuss[iun] (I)MS: s.xvi) .viij. den.
496 (Hk) 5
[rescussion] (c.1150)