† tertren.
Obsolete.
A little hill; a rising ground; an eminence. Cf. territory n.2
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1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses x. iv He sat vpon a tertre in a playn felde.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) cxxii. 185 The barons acorded that they wold close this litil terter and waye.
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