Translation of "serve" into Middle English (1100-1500)

Verb--1. Perform duties or services for (another person or an organization). 2. Present (food or drink) to someone. Attend to (a customer in a store). Supply (goods) to a customer. Act as a server at the celebration of the Eucharist. Play (a trick) on (someone). 3. Deliver (a document such as a summons or writ) in a formal manner to the person to whom it is addressed. 4. Be of use in achieving or satisfying. Function for or treat (someone) in a specified way (e.g. "the strategy served him well"). Of a male breeding-animal, copulate with a female. 5. In tennis and other racket sports, hit the ball or shuttlecock to begin play. 6. Bind (a rope) with thin cord to protect or strengthen it. 7. Operate a gun ("before long Lodge was the only man in his section able to serve the guns"). Noun--1. In tennis and other racket sports, an act or turn of hitting the ball or shuttlecock to start play ("he was let down by an erratic serve").