Middle English Dictionary Entry
gil(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | gil(e n.(1) Also gille. |
| Etymology | ON; cp. Norw., Dan. gjælle, Swed. gäl gill & OI gjölnar?lips, ?mouth. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The gill of a fish; (b) ~ fish, a kind of stockfish.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)536 : Si du pessohun trovez, Par les vemberges [glossed: gilles; vrr. giles, gilleys, gilles vel finnes] le pernez.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)269 : He glydes in by þe giles þurȝ glaymande glette.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Tob.6.4 : Take thou his gile ether iowe [L branchiam], and drawe hym to thee.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)10b/a : Braunchium: a gille.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)18a/a : Þai bene also of þe party of þe pecten streyt to þe maner of a fynne or a gille enioynyng þam in þe pecten.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)194 : Gylle of a fysche: Branchia.
- ?a1450 VIIJ ys (Dc 257)p.112 : I love..Drof of hors and gyl of fisch.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)55a : A Gyll of a fysche: branchia.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)703/42-3 : Hec brancia, Hec senecia: a gylle.
b
- a1500 Weights in RHS ser.3.41 (Vsp E.9)17 : Stocke fyssche dyuers sorts..There ys dowbyll fysche..Also somer fyssch..also wynter fyssh, that ys a pleyne gyll fyssch.