couchen

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And thei have none houses, but tentes; that thei maken of skynnes of bestes, as of camaylles and of othere bestes, that thei eten; and there benethe thei couchen hem and duellen, in place, where thei may fynden watre, as on the Rede See or elles where For in that desert is fulle gret defaute of watre: and often time it fallethe, that where men fynden watre at o tyme in a place, it faylethe another tyme.

Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 : Asia, Part I