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† wanlace Obs.
Also 5 wanlas(e, wenlace, 5–6 wanles(s: and see windlass n.1
[a. AF. wanelace, wenelaz (12–13th c.), recorded in the fig. sense ‘deception, fraudulent device’. As the word does not occur in continental Fr., it is not unlikely that it may be a Norman mispronunciation of some native English word. In the 16th c. wanlace was superseded by windlass n.2, but it is not clear whether this was a survival of the native form or an etymologizing alteration of the AF. word. Latinized forms of the word, in the original hunting sense, are wenelacia and wanlassum (in Du Cange erroneously waulassus). The phrase fugare wanlassum was used for ‘to drive back the game’.]
1. Hunting. A circuit made by a portion of a hunting party for the purpose of intercepting and heading back the game. Hence, an appointed station in hunting, = trist n.2, tristre, med.L. stabulum.
c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xvii, Neuerthelesse þer beth somme þat falleth to be berselettes, and also to brynge wele and faste a wanlas aboute. c1420Wyntoun Cron. iii. iii. 520 (MS. W.) Quhen he wes xv ȝeris of cass He slew his fader at þe wanless. Ibid. vii. iv. 446 (MS. Cott.) A knycht hym [sc. William Rufus] slew þar at wanles.
2. transf. An intercepting movement; an ambush. Phrase, at the wanlace.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12860 Bytwyxt þem [sc. the opposing armies] were many chaces, ffele turnynges & fele wanlaces. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 164 Men may..barate thair inymyes..and se quhen thay ar in disaray, and wate thame at the wanlas. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 192 Quhen we war gatherit, we waytet thame at the wanles.
3. fig. A crafty device, a plot.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4375 Where þat he [a taxgatherer] myght make a wanlace, And any þyng to þe kyng purchace, He ne lette for no fals othe. Ibid. 12008 Þat he [sc. God] wulde..brynge þe aȝen to his grace Þat þou lostest with þy wanlace. c1400Beryn 2874 By þat tyme I have I-made al my wanlase. 1481Botoner Tulle of Old Age (Caxton), And all such corrupt untrue werkis which ben nevir mevid not undirtakyn but by the insolence and wantonness and wenlacys of flesshely delectacyon. |