Middle English Dictionary Entry
dogger n.
Entry Info
| Forms | dogger n. |
| Etymology | MDu. dogger a fishing boat, dogge fishing net. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A broad-bowed, two-masted fishing vessel; (b) ~ fish, a kind of food fish caught by such vessels or on the Dogger Bank; (c) ~ man, a man who fishes from a dogger or on the Dogger Bank.
Associated quotations
a
- (1347) Close R.Edw.III241 : [Ships called] doggers [sent to sea to catch fish].
- (1357) Statutes Realm1.355 : Touz les niefs appellez Doggeres & Lodshippes..deliverent & deschargent lour pesson dedeinz le havene de Blakeneye.
- (1373) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)43 : Ressu..del sourplus de Freyht de la nef Robert Dogger iiii.
- (1383) Close R.Rich.II261 : [Small vessels of theirs called] doggers [if they exceed not sixteen tuns burden].
b
- (1357) Statutes Realm1.356 : Certein pris..assiz sur le pesson de Doggerefissh & lochefissh.
c
- a1500 Weights in RHS ser.3.41 (Vsp E.9)17 : The rule of Doggermen ys to sell [vi]xx and iiij fysschys for a C.