juncare

juncare, ~iare [cf. CL juncus] 1 (intr.) to cut rushes. c1325 de diversis consuetudinibus viz. presentsilver, gryvespound, ~andi, triturandi (MinAc 1141/1) Oxford Studies in Soc. & Leg. Hist. II (1910) 108n. 7. 2 (tr.) to strew with rushes. 1222 juncum ‥ ad cameras nostras ‥ junchiandas Cl I 493a; 1245 mitti faciat ‥ unam bonam navatam boni junci ad domos regis ibidem [Westminster] juchiandas Liberate 29 m. 7. 3 (p. ppl. as sb. n.) place in which rushes grow, rush-bed. c1160 ab illo loco ubi marescum est cum quodam ~ato ad caput bovarii sui E. Ch. Yorks XI 269; c1200 usque ad junctatum subtus le Cundos Cart. Newm. 77. 4 (p. ppl. as sb. f.) curd cheese made in a rush basket, junket. bred ches, juncta, -te PP; ~ata, A. juncade, sive a crudde ymade yn ryshes WW; lopyrde mylke, junctata [l. junccata] CathA.

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