occare

occare [LL] 1 to harrow. b to break up (stone). ~abat, egide GlC O 123; ~o, Gallice hercer (Garl. Unus gl.) Teaching Latin II 166.  b 1472 in solutis J. C. lathamo ~ando unius lapidis Ac. Chamb. Winchester. 2 to cut; b (transf. & fig., w. ref. to Fates or thread of life). ~are, scindere, secare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 401; videas hanc, quasi colum bajulando, nunc filum manibus et brachiis in longum extrahere, nunc extractum ~ando tanquam in fusum revocare Gir. IK I 2 p. 33.  b extrema sorte juvenis mariti vite filum in imo pelagi celeriter ocante Ord. Vit. XII 15 p. 347; Clotho colum bajulat, Lachesis trahit, Atropos occat (Vers.) Natura Deorum 2; ita erat ‥ attenuatus infirmitate ut omnes illum intuentes magis ~andum crederent in eo quam protrahendum filum temporalis vite J. Furness Walth. 128; quod netum Attropos sororis medie / occabit forsitan cras aut perhendie Walt. Wimb. Sim. 91. 3 (fig.) to cut short, put an end to, quench, kill. angit, suffocat, commercia gutturis occat R. Cant. Malch. V 201; guttura suffocat, sub faucibus artat et ocat Ib. 913 p. 173; ad ignem nimis furentem cucurrerunt ‥ ut vim foci viriliter ocarent Ord. Vit. III 14 p. 157; interimit, perimit, interficit, et necat, occat Garl. Syn. 1585D; Attropos occat eam [sc. juventutem] Gower VC VII 448.