† boute-sellen.
Obsolete. rare.
A trumpet-call, warning knights or cavalry to put on the saddle; = boot and saddle at boot n.3 1b.
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mountee1415
tucket1605
boute-selle1628
boot and saddle1697
watering call1798
stable-call1889
stable1908
1628 tr. P. Matthieu Powerfull Favorite 136 At Executions, the Trumpets sounded the battaile, as the alarme, or the bouteselle [printed bonteselle], to go to death.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cli, in Poems (1878) IV. 138 The Towne-pent Rutters..attend to Bot et Selle.
a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 8 The sprightly Chanticlere..Sounds Boutesel [v.r. Boot-esel] to Cupid's Knight.
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