Middle English Dictionary Entry
spīk(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | spīk(e n.(1) Also spic(e; pl. spik(e)s, spicis, spigges, (N) spekis & spik. |
| Etymology | ON: cp. OI spīkr & spīk. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A large nail, usu. of iron; ~ nail; nail ~; -- also coll.; (b) a pointed stud of some sort, prob. metal; also, a pointed limb of a tree; (c) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (1294-5) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 1160 : In cc clauis de Tingelneil de Edmundo Horn emptis, iiij denarii precium c ij denarii..Item, in c spik de eodem emptis, iij d.
- (1294-6) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 1140 : In c de Clenchenayl emptis, ciiij d.; Et in c de spiknayl emptis, xiij d.
- (1322-3) Acc.Wellingborough in North.RS 8125 : In ccctis spicnayl pro hostio et portis manerii.
- (1345-6) Doc.in Nicolas Navy 2477 : [For mending one] roth [of the same ship's boat, 1 s. 1 1/2 d.; nails, called] glots, midelglots, spikes, rundnails.
- (1363-4) Acc.in Lambert Hist.Banstead343 : In ccc spyknail ad idem emptis, xxi d.
- (1385) *Mun.B.Bridgewater47 : De iiij d. pro spikys emptis dicte domo.
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5226/11 : Valeriano Carpenterio pro Ml. dc clauorum per ipsum emptorum ibidem, iiij s. ij d.; et pro Ml. cc spyks, vj s.
- (1396-7) *Mun.B.Bridgewater1652 : Ad frangendum vetus pavement Et in iiij Spykes ferri Et in j barwe de novo empto, ij d.
- (1403) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2318 : Item, solvit une seme spykys, iiij d.
- (1416) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2324 : Item, pro helme et spicis, xvi d.
- (1420) *Mun.B.Bridgewater42 : In spikenaill et bordnaill.
- (1425) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2434 : Item, de ij s. vj d. pro stramine empto ad domum Johannis Parkyn..Item, de xij d. pro spykys et helme ad idem.
- (1448) Acc.Yatton in Som.RS 490 : That ys y payd for the tabyl of the hye awter, xj marcs x s..for four spykys, vij d.
- (1454) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99150 : iij gang del spekys, ij plogheuedez.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57214 : My mastyr rekened wyth John Smythe of Shotley, and he axseth for viij gonne spannes and xvj plates for the whele..Item, he axseth for c di. of spykes, and iiij gret spykes the wyche weyd iij stone and ij li.
- (1473-4) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2569 : Pro undyrsettynge de tenemento..xviij d.; et pro spykenaylles ad idem, ij d.
- (1476-78) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.3232 : Item, paied for xj grete Nayle Spygges, iiij d.
b
- (1466) Rec.St.Stephen in Archaeol.5035 : j candilstike of iron wt spikes and j nose be for Synt Stephane.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)283/29,35 : Over hym above his hede he sawe a rowgh spyke, a bygge bowghe leveles; And therewith he brake hit of by the body..Sir Phelot laysshed at hym egerly to have slayne hym, but sir Launcelot put away the stroke with the rowgh spyke.
c
- (1307-8) Nickname in LuSE 55166 : Godfrey Spicenail.