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‖ astre
[a. OF. astre, aistre (mod.F. âtre) ‘hearth,’ of unknown origin.
(See Brachet âtre, Littré âtre, êtres, Diez piastra. The med.L. astrum, in the same sense, is quoted by Du Cange only from English authors, as if formed on AF. astre.)]
A hearth, a home. Hence astrer (see quot.)
[1292Britton ii. xxxviii. §6 Chescun communer qi ad astre en mesme la vile.] a1500in Utterson Pop. Poetry II. 78 (Halliw.) Bad her take the pot..And set it aboove upon the astire. 1576W. Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 507 Astre, that is to say, the stocke, harth, or chimney, for fire. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 278 They have the privilege of the Astre, or herth for fire, in the Mansion house. 1865Nichols Britton II. 155 note, An astrer..was a peasant householder, residing at the hearth or home where he was bred. 1882Elton Orig. Eng. Hist. 191 [In] Montgomeryshire..Auster⁓land is that which had a house upon it in ancient times. |