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siare

siare [AN sier, OF seier, soiier < CL secare], to cut, (spec.) to cut with a saw, to saw (wood or timber). 1259 scyaverunt ligna Ac. Build. Hen. III 336; 1283 in ij sioribus ~antes [sic] legges ad hostia KR Ac 462/9 (cf. Building in Eng. 254); 1286 ij sioribus ~antibus c et l pedes de plaunchie Ib. 462/11; 1298 ad planchas in bosco de Hope ~and' ad fundamentum dictorum molendinorum ‥ reparandum Ib. 486/10.

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