falcare

1 falcare [cf. CL falcatus] 1 (p. ppl. as adj.) furnished with blades. b sickle-shaped. ~atis curribus, armatis GlC F 29; ~ate, i. falces in circuitu rotarum GlH F 73 (cf. ib. 67: ~atus, i. armatus).  b flexibus ~atis Neckam NR I 26 (v. 2 falco 1a); hic vero armatus ‥ telo ~ato tres feminas virgines, sc. ipsas Gorgones, decollabat Deorum Imag. 21. 2 to mow (meadow, hay); b (intr.). c (p. ppl. as sb. f. or n.) measure of meadow mown in one day; cf. OF fauchiee de prez. a1128 (v. coopertorium 6a); unam acram prati ‥ quam ~ant homines ipsius ville Cust. Abingd. 300; 1199 fenum ~are et levare et cariare, et sterkilinia †ecuriare [MS: ecariare] CurR I 77; 1238 mandatum est Johanni de N. quod permittat abbatem et monachos de Pipwell’ ~are landam de Benifeld’ sicut eam ~are consueverunt Cl 90; 1279 debet invenire j hominem cum falce ad pratum ~andum Hund. II 446; 1318 P. de W. qui non est communarius ~avit in communa vjc lesch’ sine advocacione alicujus communarii CBaron 125; 1345 in xv acris prati ‥ ~andis et levandis Comp. Swith. 150; 1351 datos custumariis ~antibus pratum domini viij d. ex consuetudine Rec. Elton 373.  b omnes ad opus domini arabant et herciabant, ~abant et metebant DB I 166; [villanus] debet ‥ metere, et ~are [AS: mawan], deorhege cedere, et stabilitatem observare (Quad.) GAS 445; c1155 (v. faenare b); 1204 habebunt xx equas [in foresta] ‥ et ~abunt †eas [l. eis] Couch. Furness II 293; s1206 ~are in marisco illo Croyl. Cont. B 473.  c 1234 debet ‥ falcare pratum domini quamdiu fuerit falcandum, sc. tria ~ata per medium prati ex transverso prati, et habere haverocum Cust. Glast. 65; 1410 J. Pateney ‥ tenuit ‥ tres virgatas prati et unam falcatam prati IPM 79. 3 (fig.): a to mow down, destroy. b to shape as with a scythe (cf. Ovid Met. XI 229, Heroides II 131). a pravos extirpat ‥; / falcat eos Fulco presul in urbe sacra Garl. Tri. Eccl. 92.  b pars ima recessu / abditiore jacens refugos falcatur in arcus J. Exon. BT III 213.

2 falcare v. phalerare