Word of the Day: TROIL

ETYMOLOGY
vb.: from Old French troilliertruilliertreuiller, from Middle High German trüllen

EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“… Thus with treison and with trecherie · þow troiledest hem boþe,
And dudest hem breke [here] buxomnesse · þorw false by-heste;
Thus haddest þou hem oute · and hyder atte laste.
…”

(Thus with treason and with treachery · thou troiledest them both,
And diddest them break their buxomness · through false byhest;
Thus haddest thou them out · and hither at the last.
)

From: The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman
By William Langland, 1393

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