Middle English Dictionary Entry
flasket n.
Entry Info
| Forms | flasket n. |
| Etymology | OF fla(s)quet. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. flaket & flagon.
1.
A container, such as a case, a jar, a flask.
Associated quotations
- (1299) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100495 : In 1 duodeno de Flaskett.
- (1310) Acc.Executors in Camd.n.s.1010 : Panetria..Et de ij s. vj d. de j flasket vendito.
- (1335-6) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100527 : In 1 flasket, pane, aceto, sagimini, oleo olive, et gummis.
- (1379) Grocer Lond.in EGSt.(1948)94 : Flasket.
- (1415) Invent.Agincourt in Archaeol.7096 : Vn graund flaskette dargent..ouec vn leon sur le topet de stoppell, poisant de troie xxxiiij lb. vij vnc.
- (1460-65) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31395 : For a baskett..and for Frese and for iij Flasketts, ij s. vij d.
- (1470-1) Will York in Sur.Soc.45183 : Johannæ..filliæ meæ, j ollam argenti vocatam a flaskett.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1450(1438) GLeg.Benedict (GiL47) (Glo 12) 218/199 : Flaskettis [Eg 876: A good man sente to Seint Benet by a childe two flaskowse of wyne.]
- c1450(1438) GLeg.Benedict (GiL47) (Glo 12) 218/202 : Flaket [Eg 876: Loke wel that thou drinke not of that flaken of wyne that thou hast hidde.]
- c1450(1438) GLeg.Benedict (GiL47) (Glo 12) 218/206 : Flaket [Eg 876: He turned ouer the flaken and anone ther lepte oute a gret serpent.]
Note: Additional quotes. New spellings.