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filare

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Searchable Lemmata: filare (L), filer (AF).
Alternate Forms: filabit, filando, filant, filantes, filarati, filarato, filaro, filatarum, filati, filatis, filatum, filatur, filatus, filé, file, filee, filo, filont, filoyt, fylanda, fylanda.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(vb.) Manufacture; to spin (thread, yarn, etc.); also, to thread or to form into threads or strands. Regularly appears as a participle (AF filee, etc.) and as a verbal noun.(circa 1200 - circa 1500)
1. ad feminam quam ante domum suam filare vidit festinus divertit. Other. [DMLBS MAP NC (IV 15 f. 56) ante 1210]
2. filatur et depilatur sicut caro porcina macra(formed in threads or strands) [DMLBS M. SCOT (Lumen 247) ante 1240]
3. colum: gallice 'del filant' Gloss. ('spinning' - verbal noun). [AND TLL (i 132) circa 1200/1300]
4. Quant vostre fil est bien filee, E vostre fusil tut emplee(spun) [AND BIBB ANTS (443-444) circa 1250]
5. in xij ulnis blanketti faciendis ... viz. in lana ejusdem pectinanda ad mensam vj d. et in eadem fylanda ad tascham xxij d. et in eadem tixanda xiij d. et in eadem fullanda xv d. Accounts. [DMLBS Rec. Elton (83) 1298]
6. eynsz font les povers femmes des diverses Viles entour qe les avan diz Leynes filont & vendont le fil, & les avaun ditz Tistours [AND RotParl1 (ii 409) 1279/1377]
7. E Eve filoyt por vesture fere Biblical/Hagiographic. 'And Eve spun wool to make clothing', The Holkham Bible: A Facsimile, trans. M. P. Brown, The British Library (London: 2007), p. 34. [AND Bible1 (5.10) circa 1325]
8. [411] ... Ma manche est tavelee (M.E. raggid) ... [417] ... De sabiloun est fait true Et seie filee (M.E. bristul thredud) passe le lieu [AND Nom (411-417) circa 1300/1350]
9. Mathee Daniel: j bague de alum cust. j d. Port Bks 46; .j. bag de greine poisant iiij. li. ... i sack de coton filé ... xi bales de gallés ... ii bales de coton turk ... ii sak de coton surrien Accounts, Legal. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Local Port Bk (110) 1435/1436]
10. quod ... pannarii ... in shoppis suis tenere apprenticia et servientes suos filantes. [DMLBS Doc. Bev. (100) 1493]
c.f.: spin
AF, L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(vb.) Manufacture; to plait or to ply.(circa 1290)
1. pro vj cordis de filo filarato, pond' mcc, precium centene xviij s. [DMLBS KR (Ac 467/9) 1284]
c.f.: plait
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(psp.) Raw Material; (past participle as substantive): yarn, spun thread.(circa 950 - circa 1217)
1. filaratum, gearn. Gloss. [DMLBS GlH (F 304) 900/999]
2. cum quatuor ponderibus lane et duobus ponderibus filarati. [DMLBS Pat (53) 1217]
c.f.: yarn, file
L.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, From late L.
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