Middle English Dictionary Entry
flaket n.
Entry Info
| Forms | flaket n. Also flaget. |
| Etymology | OF fla(s)quet. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. flasket & flagon.
1.
A container, such as a case, a jar, a flask.
Associated quotations
- (?c1300) Sub.R.Lynn in Nrf.Archaeol.1353 : In j. flaket.
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)1298 : Inouȝ a leide him before, Bred and flesc out of is male And of his flaketes win & ale.
- (1364) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2947 : In j flaket empto pro ecclesia vijd.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1888,1893 : Tvo flaketes ful of ful fine wynes..þe flagetes he let falle.
- (1382-3) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100389 : Una parva flaket empt. pro celebracione.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.171 : Þe queene hiȝte smyte of Cirus heed and þrowe it in a flakett [L utrem; Higd.(2): veselle] ful of manis blood.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)95a/a : It sowneþ as a flaket oþer a botel.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)163 : Flakette, botelle: Flasco, flasca.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)200/24 : Þe butler powrid furth all þat was in þe flakett.
- (1459) Paston (Gairdner)3.167 : Item, j flaget of silver, weiyng xxxviij unces.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57490 : My master payd fore a flaket of sylver, x s.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)412/10 : They saw a lytyll flakette of golde stonde by them, and hit semed by the coloure and the taste that hit was noble wyne. So sir Trystrames toke the flasset in his hond.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)48b : A fflackett: flacta, obba, vter, onoferum, pott.
- (1487) Will Uvedale in SAC 3167 : I bequeathe to the said Robert my sonne..ii chasid flaketts of silver and gilt with chaynes unto them.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)771 : Hoc onafrum, Hic uter, Hec olla: a flaget. Hec lura: a mowthe of a flaget. Hec lura: a nek of a flaget.