Middle English Dictionary Entry
glā̆sier n.
Entry Info
| Forms | glā̆sier n. Also glacier, glazier, glassier & glaser, glacer, glaiser, glauser. |
| Etymology | From glas n. & glā̆sen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
One whose craft is the making of glass or the installation and repair of glass windows; glazier; also, as a surname.
Associated quotations
- (1296-7) Acc.Cornw.in RHS ser.3.66105 : Et de 3d. de Thoma le glasyer pro assisa ceruisie fracta.
- (1305) Pat.R.Edw.I347 : Philip le Glasiere.
- (1316) in Fransson Surn.186 : Joh. le Glasiere.
- (1356) Chart.in Capes Hereford Cath.229 : Pro Willelmo le glasiar [for window repairs].
- (1368) Let.Bk.Lond.G (Gldh LetBk G)227 : [The Glasiers..presented Henry Stauuerne..and William Papelwyk] glasiers [to be Wardens of their mistery].
- (1373) Let.Bk.Lond.G (Gldh LetBk G)309 : [John de Brampton] glasiere [and John Geddyngge] glasiere [elected Masters of the Mistery of Glaziers].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)207b/a : Glas..fongeþ..dyuers and contrary schappes by blast of þe glasiere.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)225a/a : Substance of beche..is most nedeful to glasyeres craft.
- (1399) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3514 : In emendacione fenestrarum..per Johannem Burgh, glasier.
- (1400) in G.Otto Handwerkernamen79 : Glayser.
- (1408) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.81138 : De peltro empt. pro soudara pro plumbar et glauser.
- (1416-7) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100406 : Item, Willelmo Glasyer pro emendacione diversarum fenestrarum vitrearum, 5 s.
- (1427-8) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)168/1 : Item, paid to the Glazieres for Glazing of the parlour and tresance Withouten the parlour dore, Summa xiij li.
- (1429) J.Boys in Nrf.Archaeol.15148 : In ledyng of ston and sond with Wyton, glaser, qwych John kepyth styll.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)106/12 : He gart come bifore hym all þe Maister glasyers þat ware in þe Oste, And comandede þam to make hym a grete tounne of passandly clere galsse.
- (1446) Acc.Bk.Carpenter Co.13 : Itm, for ye glacyer, iiij d.
- (c1447) Let.Midylton in Lin.NQ 16202 : The glaser..that glasyd the chaunsell.
- (1460-65) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31395 : Payd to Petyr Glacyer for makyng Clene and mendyng of Glas wyndowys & for glas..
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57179 : Item, the glacyer off Yipswyche, on Loppom, owyth hym ffor the bord off hys son whan he went to scole here, xx s.
- (1466) Paston (Gairdner)4.228 : To the glaser for takyn owte of ii panys of the wyndows of the schyrche..and sowderyng new of the same, xx d.
- (1468-9) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum11 : Et Joh'i Benet, glasyer, pro diuersis defectibus in omnibus fenestris ecclesie emendendis.
- (1485-86) Acc.Ashburton in D&CRS n.s.158 : [Paid] le glasyer, 13s. 5d.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)35 : Slayuours and glasiars will not therof ceese.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)2817 : Tincture, with anelyng of glasiers, will not pearce hime, as they reherce.
- -?-(1473) Reg.Freemen York in Sur.Soc.96194 : Thomas Shirwyn, glassyer.
2.
?A polishing implement.
Associated quotations
- (1374) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)2.164 : Illam petram et la Glacer cum toto apparatu pendant propinquius lincoln.