Middle English Dictionary Entry
elmen adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | elmen adj. |
| Etymology | From elm(e . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Made of elm wood.
Associated quotations
- (1422) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)269/18 : Elmyn bordes for to couer the wall.
- (1449) Will Brugco in Nichols Illust.134 : For the seyd three ymages of stoon..Ywoyl have made, for eiche..a gret cofyn of elmyn borde.
- (1468) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31403 : To a carpenter for j C. & di. and x. fete elmen boord for the parclose of the schoppe.
- (1472-74) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31532 : Reperacions for the stalle & hous..; first for Elmyn borde, vij d. ob.