Middle English Dictionary Entry
anvelt n.
Entry Info
| Forms | anvelt n. Also anevelt, anvilte, andvelde, anvilt, anvilde, anvil; an(e)felt, -feld(e, anfeeld, andefeld, hanefeld, unfelde. |
| Etymology | OE anfilt, onfilti; cp. OHG anafalz. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Anvil; also fig.; (b) anfel-stock, the block or base of an anvil.
Associated quotations
a
- (1349) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)1.588 : Andveldes slegges.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)188 : With hamur smyt on the anfelde.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1308 : Anuylt, tange & slegge.
- (1388) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)5.82 : [Robert Tresilian, knight..had the following goods and chattels at Salden:..an] anvylte, [a pair of] belyes, [a] sleg, [a] hamer.
- (1393) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.207 : [One] hanefeld, [2 saws..and 2] fenestralles.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)195b/a : Bytwene þe anfelde and þe hamour.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ecclus.38.29 : A smyth sittynge bisidis the anefelt.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Job 41.15 : As the anefeld [vr. anfeeld; WB(1): stithie] of a smith.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)34b/a : Incus: an vnfelde.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)69/27 : Therof I made a goostly anveeld, whereon þe sone of mankynde schulde be forgid, so þat man schulde be waische and clensid fro euerlastynge deeþ.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)1165 : As hys brothres hamers ronge Upon hys anvelt up and doun.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)59 : An anevelte he shewede him.
- (c1450) Invent.Catherine in SANHS 7104 : That Agnes Cuttelar have gevyn an anvyll to the chirche.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)12/35 : Whoso pulleth oute this swerd of this stone and anvyld is rightwys kynge borne of all Enlond.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)66 : Ley it vpone an Andefeld of yrene or of stell.
b
- (1399) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)2.340 : [Two best] belyes [and two] anfelstokkes.
2.
?Female pudenda.
Associated quotations
- (a1400) *Barton's Urines (Sln 280)f.282r : Þat is þilk licoure þat man leuyþ wiþ womman [?insert: on a wommannys anveld . for as salomon saiþ .3. þyngus moo neuer be fillud .i. helle . þe erþe & a wommannys vessel.]
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1393) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.142 : [A] stok [with a] handvyle [for fish, 8 d.].
Note: New spelling. ?same word.