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Quotation dates: 1460-1539
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Trap(p)our, n. Also: trapowr, trappur, -er. [ME and e.m.E. trappure (14th c.), trappour (c1400), traper (1463), OF drapure.] Trapping, housing for a horse. Chiefly pl. 1460 Hay Alex. 861.
The armit hors with all thair proud trapouris 1460 Hay Alex. 1581.
He knew him be his scheild and his trapour 1460 Hay Alex. 1869.
His trapour of his hors … Oure fret with stanis of price 1473–4 Treasurer's Accounts I 18.
viij vnce of silk for the kingis trapowris 1494 Loutfut MS 115a.
Heraldis & pursewantis … suld haue … trapouris of the hors 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1074.
Ane hors … harneist all with wodbind leuis grene. Of the same sute the trappours [L. trappuris] law doun hang c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 127/41.
Ȝett to weir trapperis at the Ȝuill I wald be spurrit at everie spald c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 128/76.
Trappouris 1513 Doug. xi v 29.
In the fyre dyd slyng … Brydillys, and all thir stedis trappouris 1539 Treasurer's Accounts VII 206.
To be harnessing to the samyn sadill of the Frenche fassoun witht dowbill trappouris, ix quarteris of blak welvot
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