treble (c.1230)
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treble (c.1230)

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trebel,  trebill;  trebble;  treple;  tresble  

a.

1threefold: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  nostre seigneur descendi en terre pur fere trebble pes  24.3
( 1344 )  Ceo plee est treble: un q'ils sount divers tenances ...; autre, qe ...; le terce il ad autre seignur qe nous  18 Ed III 109
(TBD)  trilices: de trebble lyz  90
2triple-rowed (teeth): 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  (The Manticora) Vis ad de humme [...] E trebble denz en la meissele  678

s.

1treble, three times as much: 
( 1275 )  si rendra al pleintif le trebble de ceo q'il avera de lui receu  I 32 xix
( 1350-51 )  despendent de coste le double ou le treble en brocage  ii 228
a(u), en treble
1threefold: 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Ke, jofne, ne vodra aprendre, Veil, a trebble le estut despendre  116
( 1319 )  taxé les damages en double ou en trebble  Ed II xxv 21
( 1324-25 )  Que amounteront a treble & quatreble de lour coustages  i 416
( 1326-27 )  soient agardez as pleintifs lour damages au tresble  I 254 viii
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