Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shut in or inclose; shut up or confine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To shut up or out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To shut in or
inclose ; shut up orconfine .
Etymologies
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From Middle English beshutten, bishetten, equivalent to be- + shut.
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¶ Th {us} al entreted sharpely were they tyll Cerber {us} ¶ Had hem beshut within his gates tenebr {us}.
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