? Overthrow, fallen mass. (But in the passage quoted the Ellesmere and two other MSS. have tas heap.)

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 147 (Harl., Corpus, Petw., Lansd.). To ransake in the caas of þe bodies dede [so ll. 151, 162; here Harl. has chaas].

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