avellere

avellere [CL] , to tear away, pull out, pluck. b (fig.). 10‥ avulsus, aweg abroden WW; munientes se per gyrum avulse terre aggere W. Jum. II 10; arbores ‥ stirpitus avulsas Gir. TH II 54; 1202 hec [monialis] ‥ sub feretrum ‥ se dedit in lamentum ‥ nec inde ~i poterat Canon. G. Sempr. 77; 1307 de pellibus lanutis avulsis MinAc 1079/18 m. 9 (cf. ib.: lana avulsa decimatur in pell’); s1379 (v. alluvio 1a). b Ad. Marsh Ep. 83 (v. avulsio).

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