Middle English Dictionary Entry
grāten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | grāten v. P.ppl. i)grāted. |
| Etymology | OF grater |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To grate (bread, etc.), reduce to powder; ppl. grated, crumbled, reduced to crumbs or powder; (b) to scarify; (c) to make (a weapon) strike; ~ on, grate upon (sb.), strike (sb.) with weapons.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.28 : Take brede ygrated and ayren and swyng it togydre.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)472 : And in the boylynge, cast therto grated bred to make hit thik.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)207 : Grate brede: Mico. Grate gynger [vr. grate gynjors or oder lyke]: Frictico.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)6 : Þanne grate fayre brede and caste þer-to.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)19 : Þen take bred y-gratyd, & pouder of Gyngere..an caste þer-to.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.40 : Take rawe chese anone, And grate hit in disshes mony on.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)87 : Temper grated bread and eggs and stirre it to gedure.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)247 : Leche Lumbard. Take red wyne or white..and put to gratid brede and sawndres.
b
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)610 : Scarifacio: to grate.
c
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.1077 : Zantipus..On Meneste gan his spere grate, And þoruȝ his scheld, mail, & þikke plate, So sore he smot.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)8443 : Alle they grated on hym at onys, him to han Slayn.