Middle English Dictionary Entry
graunǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | graunǧe n. Also gronge & (?errors) grangis, graunger. |
| Etymology | OF grange |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A granary, barn; ~ place, granary; (b) outlying buildings of a monastic or other estate; (c) small farm; (d) group of farms, small village; (e) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.208].
Associated quotations
a
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4689 : Garners and granges [Ioseph] fild wit sede, Mao þan i wit tung can rede.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)5044 : Þai soȝt and sone þe stiwarde fande atte a grange place [Vsp: garner] soiournande.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.321 : Þe kynges oste..mad lardere Of tounes & hamlesse, of granges & garner.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)30 : For a mowe ys seyd in graunge, And a tas with oute grange.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)208 : Grawnge, [Win: Grawnger], or gronge: Grangia.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)698 : Thou shalt here..of loves moo eschaunges Than ever cornes were in graunges.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)318/10 : In the which mese is I-conteyned: j halle..j kechyn..j doffe-hous; j wodehous; ij grangis.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)57a : Grangys [Monson: Grawnge]: Grangia.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3668 : I trowe that he be went For tymber..For he is wont for tymber for to go And dwellen at the graunge a day or two.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1256 : This noble monk..was..an officer out for to ryde, To seen hir graunges and hir bernes wyde.
- (1440) Visit.Alnwick196 : The foundere..ordeynede for the saide carthorses a stable in the graunge of the saide college.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.87/1 : To þese thynges I haue i-grauntid..þat þey haue housboote and heyboote and to be i-brendid resonably at þere granges in my woodys In þoo places where I haue woodys.
- a1475 VPhilibert (Brog 2.1)p.26 : And nowe that abbay is torned to a grange, Farewel thi frenschype, thi kechyne is cold.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.1170 : For like as an abbeye is brought to a graunge, So all thyng was turned out of kynde.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Add 9066)368 : All here [i.e. prelates'] studie is granges, shepe, nete, and rentes.
c
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)2049 : Ȝet wold not þei Want her possession neythir feld ne ȝerd, Pasture ne graunge, corn, chaf ne hey.
- (c1447) Let.Midylton in Lin.NQ 16199 : Item Wellyngover hou that grange doth there and hou yt is haldyn up nescio but I charge yow to get suche a persone as wolde at metecorn maytenyng me ther' a plowe off oxen..and take hym sex oxen with plow and wayn..yn thys fforme may the graunge be susteynyd and myn catell oversene.
d
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)764 : Forbar he neyþe[r] tun ne gronge, Þat he ne toyede with his ware.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)17.71 : Þe samaritan..ladde hym so forth on lyard to lex-christi, a graunge..Herberwed hym at an hostrye.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)103/22 : He was compelled to a-byde at a grange whech þei clepe Heseleschop, a-bidyng þe ende of þe storm.
e
- (1252) EPNSoc.28 (Der.)296 : Grange.
- (1274) Close R.Edw.I74 : William de la Graunge.
- (1284) EPNSoc.13 (War.)272 : Hegegrange.
- (1293) EPNSoc.13 (War.)73 : Henry de la Graunge.
- (1300) Hundred R.Tower 2443 : Henr. Ategrange.
- (1306) EPNSoc.28 (Der.)204 : Barley Grange.
- (1328) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)264 : Grange.
- (1330) EPNSoc.28 (Der.)222 : Byrleygrange.
- (1332) EPNSoc.13 (War.)73 : Adam atte Graunge.
- (1332) Sub.R.Lan.in LCRS 31.290 : Robertus del Graunge.
- (1367) EPNSoc.13 (War.)183 : Homegraunge mulne.
- (a1471) EPNSoc.28 (Der.)285 : Gronge.