trepeget

Middle English

Etymology

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Noun

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 932884868:
  Without stroke it mote be take,
  Of trepeget or mangouell
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References

trepeget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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