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querculus

querculus [ML < CL quercus+-ulus] , (as sb. m. & f.) young oak, small oak-tree; b (in phr.). 1233 capi facit aliquo die plusquam ducentos ~os et aliquando trecentos CurR XV 452 p. 95; 1251 fecerunt wastam ‥ de xxxix ~is IMisc 5/9; 1257 exceptis quercubus ~is Cl 57; 1338 duas magnas quercus ‥ decem minores quercus ‥ quadraginta ~os ‥ succidendo KR Ext. & Inq. 10/4; 1386 R. de S. colyer succidit quandam frondem de quadam ~o SelCCoron 99; 1388 ij ~i et ij fraxini precii ij s. KR Misc. 5/30; 1433 in l ~is emptis Fabr. York 50; an ake, quarcus, quarculus, ilex CathA; a sappelynge; ~us [v. l. ilex] Ib..  b de ipsius ducis ‥ gestis ‥ stilus presens, a nemore ~um extrahens, gradum sistat Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 55 p. 140.

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