Middle English Dictionary Entry
grāver(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | grāver(e n. Also grafer(e, gravour(e, gravor, grawowre. |
| Etymology | OE grafere, græfere. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A carver, sculptor, engraver; (b) a digger, miner; (c) an engraving tool; (d) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)541/13 : Sculptor: grafere.
- (1363) Statutes Ireland 3p.112 : We..have Ordeyned..Germyn lynche..graver of the pounsouns of the said moneis and coignes.
- (c1365) Rec.Norwich 1399 : Peter de Jorn, grauere.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.28.36 : Þou schalt graue with werk of a grauer [L cœlatoris].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)196b/b : Adamas is a litil stoon of ynde..grauers [L sculptores] vsen þe peces þerof to signe..preciouse stoones.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)246a/a : Graueres [L sculptores]..eteth rue by cause of þe yhen, and scharpeþ here sight.
- ?a1425 Const.Masonry(1) (Roy 17.A.1)504 : They were as gode masonus as on erthe schul go; Gravers and ymage-makers they were also.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.2458 : Callicrates, a grauer most notable, Off whiht yuor dede his besynesse.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)172 : Formowre, or grubbynge yryn of gravowrys: Scrofina.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)208 : Graven or [read: of] a grawowre: Sculptus.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)273 : Kervare, or gravoure: Sculptor.
- (c1449) Rec.Norwich 2230 : Glasiers, steyners..Gravours.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)127 : These foure coronatoures were grauouris of ymagery and entayle, most speciali in stoon.
- (1469) Indent.Edw.IV in Archaeol.15172 : The seid maister..may take and receyve as many gravers for to grave the irennes..as the seid maister..or deputees see that there shalbe nede to have.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)57a : A Graver of wode or metell: Celator, sculptor.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)687/26 : Sculptor: a grafer.
b
- (1290) in Fransson Surn.136 : Piers le Graver [was killed by the collapse of the pit in which he was working].
- ?a1400 Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Petyt 511)8153 : Grauers [þe kyng dide come mynours ynowe].
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)57a : A Graver: sespitor, Cultor, fossor.
c
- (1413) Will in Bk.Lond.E.217/15 : Y be-quethe to the for-sede Jon, I graners [read: grauers] an a flot an a planen.
- (1434) Will York in Sur.Soc.3025 : Lego..Willelmo Scott..j thik flote and j gravour.
- (1458) Will York in Sur.Soc.30214 : Lego Jacobo..sex limas vocatas files, et vj gravers.
- (1458) Will York in Sur.Soc.30218 : Johannes Snayth de Doncastre, bower..Ricardo de la Stede apprenticio meo..j flote, ij gravors et ij cultellos, pro arte sua.
d
- (1251) Close R.Hen.III406 : Rex perdonavit Simoni Gravori.
- (1293) in Fransson Surn.136 : Pet. le Grauere.
- (1338) in Fransson Surn.136 : Joh. le Grauer.
- ?c1382 Survey Hatfield in Sur.Soc.3297 : Willelmi Colegraver.