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bursare

bursare 1 to pack (wool). 1291 ita quod lana que vocatur tayller dicte domus [Pipe-well] brusetur inter communem lanam Cl 108 m. 9d. (cf. ib.: lanas paratas, ~atas et ponderatas); 1296 tali condicione quod ‥ mercatores lanam domus ‥ reciperent in tres partes fideliter brusatam, videlicet in bonam, medianam et loccas electas Couch. Kirkstall 226. 2 to cover or protect (a cart-wheel). 1318 in ij rotis ~andis Ac. Man. Wint. (Alton) ; 1378 in stipendio j rotarii pro modiis carecte ~andis et boxandis Ib. (Wootton).

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