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persh, n. (a.) Obs. exc. dial.
Also 4 persche.
[Origin unascertained.]
A flexible twig; a withe.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxx[i]v. (Bodl. MS.), Persche hiȝt vimen viminis, and is a nesche ȝerde... Of persche beþ nedefulle bondes and knyttels made to binde vp vines and hopes..for tonnes. 1890Gloucester Gloss., Persh, osier. ‘Persh bed.’
b. As adj. Pliant; flexible.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxliii. (1495) T iv/2 Some wylowes ben..more smale and plyaunt than other: and..ben persh. And ben so plyaunt that they breke not. |