Middle English Dictionary Entry
entermarchen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | entermarchen v. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. marchen.
1.
Hunt. To run in such manner that the hind feet fall either between or beyond the prints of the forefeet. [Cp. enterchaungen, 4.]
Associated quotations
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)90 : Whan an hert entiermarcheth [F s'outre marche] it is a tokyn that he is a light deer and wel rennyng and of grete flight. For if he had a side bely and flankes he myght not entremarche [F outre marcher ne surmarcher] hym, but bi þe contrarie he shuld.