Middle English Dictionary Entry
garnet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | garnet n. Also gernet. |
| Etymology | Cp. ML garneta, gernattus, ?from CL cardo, cardinis. All 14th-century quots may be Latin. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A type of hinge shaped like a horizontal T; double ~, ?a garnet hinge somehow doubled in form. [See also almerie ~, out ~, and peue ~ (s.v. peue n.(1)).]
Associated quotations
- (1348) *Acc.Exch.K.R.471/1.m.3 [OD col.] : Pro j pari gernettis cum clau[e] emptis pro j Trappedore.
- (1349-50) Sacrist R.Ely 2140 : Item, in j pare garnet pro le Wyket versus feretrum.
- (1356) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.284 : [One pair of] garnetes [and one lock, 2 s. 6 d.].
- (1358-9) *Pipe Roll (PRO) 32 Edw.III m.33 [OD col.] : vjxx paribus de gernettes.
- (1374) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III in Archaeol.32386 : xxx barell. parv. cum garnett., hasp., et stapul. pro pil. plumb. inponend. et custodiend.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.170/930 : Item, for pere garnettes to þe ij wendowes of þe Celer, viij d.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.174/1067 : For ij garnettes to þe Fallynge bordes atte dores of þe pantrie and botrie.
- (1427-8) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)167 : Garnettes, Henges, Ferrementes, nailles, and Irynwerk.
- (1427-8) Rec.St.Mary at Hill69 : Payd for iiij garnetes to þe quere with þe nayles..payd for garnetes & nayles to þe same stalles.
- (1442) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)269 : Item, payd for a Cheyne for the yate and iij hokes, ij garnettes, and amendyng of the loke.
- (1454) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.139 : [Stirrups, latchets,] garnetes, lensys, [cart] clowtes.
- (1456) Acc.St.Margaret Southwark in BMag.32493 : Payed for a fourme and a dowble Garnet, ij s.
- (1460-65) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31395 : For mendyng of dyuerse pewes, for haspes, Garnettys, and nayle.
- (1468) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31403 : Paide..for a paire garnetts for the shoppe dorr.., for a garnet to the halle wyndowe.., for a paire garnetts vppon the stalle, over the seller dorr.
- (1475) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.495 : Payede for a newe garnet for the stokkes.