verger1 (s.xii2)
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verger1 (s.xii2)

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verget,  vergez,  vergier;  vergere,  vergeyer  (A) 299ra  

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1kitchen garden, orchard: 
( c.1290; MS: s.xv1 )  Alons deduyre ou baignier Au vergier (M.E. grene gardyn) ou sont les flours  (O) 336vb
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Homme en verger (M.E. zerde) creker ente (M.E. bolastre ymputh)  223
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  Auxci avez lez coigneres En plusourus des vergers (M.E. ... coigne treys In manye of þes erberes)  52.11
(TBD)  virgultum: un verger  (Gloss Berlin) 89
2young trees: 
( MS: s.xiiim )  il ot en pensé des vergiers trenchier De memes la cuinié a sun repeirer  3361
3forest shrine: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  ... il unt fait vergiers al servise de deable pur nostre Seignur curucier  146
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