Middle English Dictionary Entry
fǒuler n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fǒuler n. Also foweler. |
| Etymology | Cp. OF fouler to trample, pound, ravage. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Mil. A type of cannon or mortar.
Associated quotations
- (1435) *For.Acc.(PRO) 69 L [OD col.] : Canon de ferro voc' Foweller.
- (1450) Wars France in RS 22.2475 : Thabilementes of werre that followen; that is to say, viij gunnes called fowlers: item, vj serpentynes; item, xij rebawdekyns; item, xxiiij culveryns.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1851 : Bumbardys thei cary, And gunne & serpentyn that wil not vary, Fouler, covey, crappaude and colueryne.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2860 : The colueryne is besy for to gete An hole into the top, and the crappaude Wil in; the fouler eek wil haue his laude.
- (1474) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)11.841a : Ad Bumbardos..Fowelers, Serpentynes & alios Canones quoscumque.
- c1475(c1420) Page SRouen (Eg 1995)p.5 : A grete fouler [c1450 vr.: A stronge fowlere] was layde lowe Evyn by the erthe, that hit myght throwe.