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boultel
† boultel Obs. Also 5–6 bultell(e. [a. OF. *buletel, earlier buretel (now bluteau) meal-sieve; f. buleter, bureter (now bluter) to bolt v.1] A kind of cloth specially prepared for sifting; a sieve (= bolter1 2); hence degree of fineness as determined by the fineness of the sieve.1266 Act 51 Hen. III...
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bultelle
bultell(e var. of boultel, Obs., a sieve, sieve-cloth. (Owing to a misunderstanding of the passage in Act 51 Hen. III (quoted s.v. boultel) the word bultel was explained in Blount Law Dict. 1670 as ‘the refuse of the Meal after it is dressed by the Baker’. This erroneous definition was repeated with...
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cimbia
cimbia (ˈsɪmbɪə) [It.] 1. Arch. A fillet or ring round the shaft of a column; an apophyge.1613–39 I. Jones in Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 38/2 A small Boultel or Torus B, under the Cimbia. 1664 Evelyn tr. Fréart's Archit. 127 The Cimbia beneath the Astragal immediately above the Contraction. ...
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garb
▪ I. garb, n.1 (gɑːb) Also 6–7 garbe. [a. ONF. garbe (Central OF. jarbe, mod.F. gerbe) = Cat. and Sp. garba; of Teut. origin; cf. the synonymous OHG. garba (mod.G. garbe), OS. garƀa, garva (Du. garve, garf). On the assumption that the primary sense of OTeut. *garbâ-, as of the equivalent L. manipulu...
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ravel
▪ I. ravel, n.1 (ˈræv(ə)l) Also Sc. raivel, dial. revel. [f. the vb. Cf. Du. rafel a fraying out.] 1. A tangle, complication, entanglement; a cluster.1634 Jackson Creed vii. xxvi. §1 The thread which we are to unwind as far as possibly we can without knot or ravel. 1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. IV. 150 ...
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bolt
▪ I. bolt, n.1 (bəʊlt) [OE. bolt (str. masc.) a cross-bow bolt, cogn. with OHG. bolz, mod.G. bolz, bolzen ‘cross-bow arrow’, also ‘bolt for a door’, MDu. and Du. bout, MLG. bolte, bolten bolt, fetter, piece of linen rolled up. The remoter etymology is unknown; but it cannot be referred to the verb s...
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treat
▪ I. treat, n.1 (triːt) Forms: 4–6 trete, (5 trett, treet, treyte), 5–6 (9 Sc.) tret, 6 Sc. treit, 6–7 treate, (7 trait, trayte), 6– treat. [In branch I, f. treat v.; in II. from F. trait, or other derivative of the same stem.] I. Senses arising out of treat v. † 1. The action or an act of treating,...
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