Middle English Dictionary Entry
crochet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | crochet n. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. croket.
1.
(a) A hook; (b) a staff with a hook at the end.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1332) Acc.Eleanor in Archaeol.77126 : Willelmo le Lokier de London, pro ccc crochettis grossis et iiijor martellis.
- (1406) Wardrobe Acc.Philippa in Archaeol.67182 : ccc crochettez de ferro, cc hokes de ferro, j martellum de ferro.
- (1426-7) Rec.St.Mary at Hill64 : For crochates & iij Iron pynnes & a staple, xiij d.
- (1431) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)206/26 : Payed For alle maner henges staplys boltes..and For Gret crochettes Inne þe Halle.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)149 : As a crochet it is figured, thou wost it wel it is nempned, this crook.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)42/10 : The grete tre..was sett a boute with sperys and smetyn full of crochetys, that euery man myght hyng his sheld vppon.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)446 : Two beddys schalle be made..Þat henget shalle be with hole sylour, With crochettis and loupys sett on lyour.
b
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)137 : A disch in that oother hand she heeld, and a poket with bred; In the fifte she hadde a crochet.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)149 : 'Of the hand with the crochet,' quod j, 'sey me a litel'..she answerde..'The hand with the crook was sumtime fisshed in the derk helle.'
- a1605(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Stw 952(2))18015 : This hand also, with his crochet, in swyche a maner is yset to sell and byen this gret vertwe.
2.
(a) ?A hook-like brooch or fastener; ?a curl or roll of hair [cp. croket]; (b) arch. a crocket.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)7077 : He hade one..A kyrtyll and a crochett fyne.
b
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)174 : Y munte me forþ þe mynstre to knowen..Wiþ arches on eueriche half & belliche y-corven, Wiþ crochetes on corners, wiþ knottes of golde.
3.
Mus. A very short note; half a minim, roughly approximating a modern quarter-note; ?also, a minim, approx. a half-note.
Associated quotations
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)104 : Crochett of songe: Semiminima [Win: Minima].
- a1475 Asneth (Hnt EL 26.A.13)20 : And as able ys þe asse to danielis dremys, As þe cukkou with crochetis ony countour to close.
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)2074 : Whyche laarge, whyche long, whyche brefe, whyche semybrefe, Mynim, crochet, in rewle and eke in space, All thys she [Dame Musica] taught.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)83 : A Crochet: simpla.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)137/658 : Say, what was his song? hard ye not how he crakyd it? Thre brefes to a long..iijus pastor. Yee, mary, he hakt it. Was no crochett wrong, nor no thyng that lakt it.