trepeget
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
trepeget
- trebuchet
- c. 1360s (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:
- Without stroke it mote be take,
Of trepeget or mangouell- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References[edit]
- “trepeget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.