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avalare

avalare [OF avaler < ad+vallis] , to send downstream. b to let down, lower. c to cut down (from gallows). 1195 ad easdem naves adportandas et ‥ in eisdem ‥ ad mare advalandis RScacNorm I 185.  b 1198 pro iij estachiis ficandis ad avalandos tonellos regis in cellarium RScacNorm II 461; 1237 visores operis ‥ maremii et plumbi turris castri Hertf’ ~andi et salvandi LTR Mem 12 r. 2; 1297 in empcione xx petrarum cordarum de canabo ad aquam, terram, minam et lapides de minera extrahend’ et minerarios et maeremium avaland’ et ducend’ KR Ac 260/18 m. 2.  c 1318 per civitatem detrahatur ‥ usque ad furcas et ibidem vivus suspendatur et vivus avalletur; et postea decolletur ‥ et cor et viscera subtus furcas ‥ comburantur SelCKB IV 78.

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