nervare

nervare 1 to hamstring, to cut a tendon of. si quis vicinus vicinis seva propinet / ‥ / cum pede, cum cornu feriens mala germinet illis / ‥ / ‥ pes nervetur, cornu resecetur D. Bec. 447. 2 to string (a bow). 1266 in arbalest’ emend’ nervand’ et cordand’, quarell’ faciend’, reparand’ MinAc 1087/6 r. 1.