Middle English Dictionary Entry
girding(e ger.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | girding(e ger.(1) |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The action of girdling oneself, fastening on a belt or girdle; the fact of being belted or girded; also fig.; (b) a belt or girdle; the belt around the neck or shoulders from which a shield is suspended; (c) ~ somer, one of the girders supporting the joists under a floor; (d) naut. some kind of rope; ~ rope.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230 *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)53a : Her to falleð of ueil of heaued clað..to ouegart acemunge oðer inheowunge oðer i pinchunge gurdles ant gurdunge o dameiseles wise.
- a1400 Ancr.Recl.(Pep 2498)100/7 : Alle þise & many mo cleþed to ouer girt, as meninge oiþer heiȝeinge, in pinchinge, in girdels girdyng of damoisels wise, [etc.].
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)81/2 : Othere þere ben þat men clepen cristene men of gyrdynge [Eg: of gyrdils; F de la ceinture], for þei ben all gyrt abouen.
- ?a1440 Hortus (Brist-U)267 : Cinctura i. actus cingendi, a gerdyng.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)195 : Gyrdynge: Succinctio.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)262/23 : Also may a man seie þat þe gerdyng aboue betokneþ chastite of herte and of body.
- c1452 Capgr.Aug.Orders (Add 36704)146/25 : Girdyng in holy scriptur is take for restreynyng of our body fro uices.
b
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Is.11.5 : And feith schal be the girdyng [WB(1): girdil; L cinctorium] of hise reynes.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)14a/b : Cinctura: gurdynge.
- a1450 Gener.(1) (Mrg M 876)4224 : Laces and stringes he kerue on twoo, And the girding of the shelde also, So that the shelde to fal he lett.
c
- (1449) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.p.lv : Þe gurdyng someres of þe same flore shull be xj inchis square.
d
- 1295 *London Galley Acct.(P.R.O.Accts.etc.) 571/3 [OD col.] : viij globis fili ad duas Cordas que dicuntur Gerdinges.
- (1295) Acc.Shipbuilding in Ant.J.7431 : Item in cordis que dicunter..Hevedropes, Steyes, Gerdingges.
- (1296) Newcastle Galley in Archaeol.Ael.4.2186 : De Nave Willelmi de Stauer..j Stay, j Gyrdyng, ij Lyftes, j Warprape.
- 1336 *Acc.Exch.K.R.19/31.m.4 [OD col.] : In xij petris corde de canabo..pro duobus Girdengerepes inde faciendis.
- (1342) *Cust.Acc.(PRO) 176/3 [OD col.] () : j cord voc' girding rope.
- (1420) *For.Acc.(PRO) 3 Hen.VI F/2 [OD col.] : Gyrdyngropes.