Sarpe vs Sarse - What's the difference?
sarpe | sarse |
(label) A collar or neck-ring.
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*:sir Launcelot had twelue coursers folowynge hym / and on euery courser sat a yonge gentylman / and alle they were arayed in grene veluet with sarpys of gold about their quarters / and the hors trapped in the same wyse doune to the helys with many ouches y sette with stones and perlys in gold to the nombre of a thowsand
(countable) A sieve, especially a very fine one.
* {{quote-book
, year=1833
, author=(John Neal)
, title=The Down-Easters, Volume 1
, passage=I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1870
, author=(Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
, title=The Story of a Bad Boy
, passage="I don't want any of your sarse ," said the boy, scowling.}}
To sift through a sieve or sarse.
