Middle English Dictionary Entry
filteren v.
Entry Info
| Forms | filteren v. Also felteren. |
| Etymology | Cp. OF feutrer, feultrer & fautrer. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. filtre.
1.
(a) To tangle or join intimately, as in sexual intercourse; (b) to struggle with an adversary, to join in battle.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)696 : Uch male matz his mach, a man as hymselven, And fylter folyly in fere on femmalez wyse.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)377/318 : This Ielian Iowke dryfys he no doggys To felter.
b
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)224 : Fy..er [read: fylter] fenden folk forty dayez lencþe.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1191 : Þenne watz þe sege sette þe cete aboute..Þay feȝt and þay fende of, and fylter togeder Til two ȝer overtorned.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)986 : I schal fonde, bi my fayth, to fylter wyth þe best.