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trebuchettum

trebuchettum, ~etum [AN trebuchet; cf. ME trep(e)get, trebget; cf. et. trebuculus] 1 trebuchet, military engine for hurling large missiles. 1224 meremium ad trubechetum nostrum faciendum Cl 622a; 1228 tribechet' regis Cal. Liberate I 94; 1244 quod iij ingenia regis, blidam scilicet, trebuchet', et multonem recipiat a magistro G. ingeniatore Liberate 20 m. 3; s1217 Lodowicus ‥ obsedit castrum de Dowre cum tribuchetta et aliis machinis multis Ann. Dunstable 49; s1224 rex castrum [Roscelle] obsedit cum tribuchettis et petrariis et magunellis Ib. 86; 1315 dicta springald' et trubuchett' Pipe 160 r. 55d.; 1325 in iiij petris ferri emptis pro ligaminibus ad ‥ duo ~etta facienda MinAc 1147/23 m. 3; 1374 et remanent in eadem garderoba c petre pro ingeniis et tribigettis EHR XXVI 694; c1386 infra Turrim London' v machine et j tribegett' alias vocatum j parva machina KR Ac 473/2 m. 4d.; trepgette for werere, trevucetum PP. 2 sort of instrument of punishment, tumbrel, cucking-stool. 1206 de libertatibus francorum plegiorum et furcarum et trebuchecti Kal. Samson 135 (cf. ib. 136: habere trebuchectum et justiciam transgressorum assise panis et cervisie); c1267 paciatur judicium corporis, sc. pistor collistrigium, et braciatrix ~ettum vel castigatorium StRealm I 201a; 1275 habent forum, furcas, pillor', ~ettum Hund. II 152b; 1278 in tribuchetto de novo carpentando iij d. (Ac. Milton) DCCant.; 1308 ad inquirendum de pilloria et ~eto Growth Eng. Ind. 584; 1380 asportavit ‥ unum tripeget' ad valorem vj s. viij d. IMisc 221/13 m. 2; de ‥ furchiis et trepugetis levandis Reg. Pinchbeck f. 205b; cukstole ‥ turbuscetum PP; a thewe, tripotheum CathA; c1500 terbichetum, a cokestole OED s. v. trebuchet 4. 3 trap, pitfall, device for catching birds or animals. hoc tribucetum, a pytfalle WW.

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