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▪ I. † sarpe1 Obs.
[a. OF. sarpe (mod.F. serpe), app. f. L. sarpĕre to prune.]
A pruning hook.
1388Wyclif 1 Sam. xiii. 20 That ech man schulde scharpe his schar, and picoise, and ax, and sarpe [1382 purgyng hook]. Ibid., Isa. vii. 25 And alle hillis that schulen be purgid with a sarpe [1382 wode bil]. 1474Caxton Chesse iii. v. e ij, He ought to haue on his gyrdel a sarpe or crokyd hachet for to cutte of the superfluytees of the vignes.
▪ II. † sarpe2 Obs.
Also sarp, serpe.
[Of obscure origin.]
A collar, neck-ring of gold or silver.
1429Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) II. 18/1 Ande at nane vthir weir broudry..bot aray þaim..in all vthir honest aray as serpis beltis vches & chenzeis. 1438E.E. Wills (1882) 110 Item to Robert Greyndoor,..my Serpe of siluer and my cheyne of goold. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 46 He..tuke..a grete wreth of golde, callit a sarp be sum men, and put it about his hals. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. vii. (1885) 125 Rich stones, serpes, bauderikes, and oþer juels. 1470–85Malory Arthur xx. xiv. 822 Alle they were arayed in grene veluet with sarpys of gold about their quarters. c1485in Rutland Papers (Camden) 4 The King..arraied in a doblet of gren.., a long goune of purpur velwet,..with a riche sarpe and garter. 1488Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. (1877) I. 86 Memorandum:—fund in a blac coffre..It. the first, the grete sarpe of gold contenand xxv schaiffis with the fedder betuix. |