sewer1 (1376)
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sewer1 (1376)

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[gdw]

  FEW:  *exaquare 3,259a Gdf:  sewiere 7,412c GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF:  sewiere  TLF: ∅ OED:  sewer n.1  MED:  seuer n.  DMLBS:  essewera 807c
seuwer,  sewere;  suere  

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1 geog. artificial water-course, drainage canal: 
( 1376 )  deux sewers de ewe duissent estre en la sokene de Crulle  ii 352
( 1383 )  nettre les fosses et sewers des ditz fennes  ii 323
( MS: s.xv )  [...] une fountaine appellé le Haukeswell, tanque a une seuwer in [sic] le Fetesenge en lez prees de Clyfton versus le North  ii 254
( 1470-71 ) Pro mundacione unius suere apud le Pethmedowe, 6 s. 3 d.  i 155
commissions de sewers
1 law Commission of Sewers, royal commission to constitute a temporary court with authority for the repair and maintenance of drainage canals and other means of defence against inundation from the sea: 
( 1427 )  severalx commissions de sewerez, soient faitz as diverses persones  iv 333
( 1439 )  pur les graundes damages et perdes quex avindrent par les graundes cretens de l'ewe du miere, [...] fuist ordeigné et graunt, qe [...] severalx commissions des sewers serroient faitz as diverses persones [...] en toutz les parties du dit vostre roialme qe mestier serroit  v 27
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