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ocreare

ocreare [CL p. ppl.] 1 to equip with boots, leggings, or greaves. b (p. ppl. as adj.) who wears boots, leggings, or greaves. c (as surname, representing Greave or sim.). to bute, ~eare, ocreis ornare CathA.  b observato ut conventus tunc in claustro non sedat, nec aliquem ~eatum Lanfr. Const. 154; ut nullus ‥ ~eatus vel calcaria habens pedibus ‥ claustrum introeat Cust. Westm. 170 (= Cust. Cant. 215); dux B. humatum parentem querens et tunicatum et ~eatum in sepulcrum ‥ reperiens ‥ alibi honorabilius inhumandum relevat Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 93.  c prologus N. ~eati in Helceph ad Adelardum Batensem magistrum suum Ocreatus Helceph prol. 132. 2 (agr.) to cover trace-chain of harness with leather, to pipe traces. 1309 custus carectarum ‥ in ocreis emptis ad tractus ~eandos, v d. (Ac. Wonston) Ac. Man. Wint.; 1316 in ij cor” ad ij paria tractuum ~eanda (Ac. Oveston) Ib.; 1364 in corio empto pro tractibus ~eandis (Ac. Wonston) Ib..

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