confragum

confragum , place blocked by (or barricade constructed of) fallen trees. b (pl.) crags, or f. l. for confinia. c meeting-place of winds (cf. DuC.). Balsh. Ut. 43 (v. circumvallare 1a); locum natura difficilem ~is arborum et fossatis plurimum exasperasse Gir. EH II 12; me tibi plasseti viderunt confraga densi / primitias studii composuisse mei [gl.: ~a sunt nemora cisa, et dicuntur de ‘confringo’] Garl. Epith. X 60v. (62v.); comes audax ‥ / ‥ opponit confraga densa viis Id. Tri. Eccl. 21.  b Catericus, quem Saxones †expulserunt ad †~ia Wallie Bad. Aur. 207 (cf. G. Mon. XI 8).  c hoc ~um, a plays where the whyrwynd metes WW.