bereskyn

A bear's skin. "He had a bereskyn coleblak for old." Chaucer: C. Т. , 2,144. * bere-warde, s. [BEARWARD.] (Prompt. Parv.) * ber-frey, *ber-fray, * bew-fray, &. [O. Fr. berfroit, berfreit, belefreit.] [BELFRY.) 1. A movable tower, generally of wood, employed in sieges. "Alisaundre and his folk alle Fate a ailed heore wall is Myd berfreyes, with alle gyn Gef they myghte the cite wynne." A lisa under, 2,777-80. 2. A tower built of stone. It was so ap plied to a stone prison at Berwick. (S. in Boucher .) From this came the word BELFRY (q. v.).