Middle English Dictionary Entry
grōve n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | grōve n.(1) Also grave, grof, graf. Pl. grōves & grōven. |
| Etymology | OE grāf & grāfa. The vowel is often shortened in the first element of a place name. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A small wood; a grove, thicket; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.207].
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)469 : Leouere heom his to libben bi þan wode-roten al swa þat wilde swin þat wroteð ȝeond þan grouen.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)380 : Þe hare..secheþ paþes to þe groue.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)1640 : Þe rede [dragon] þe white drof To a valay bi side a grof.
- c1350(OE) Chart.in Birch Cart.Sax.474 : Þe grove on þer wester swolle.
- (1375) Award Blount in ORS 7205 : Item, certeyn londis, Shawys, Grovys, Crofts, Wodys, lesuris, and heggerewys Callid Bardolfys londis.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2860 : In the selue groue swoote and grene..he hadde his amorouse desires.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4568 : They..syen the fox toward the groue gon.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)236b/a : Avellana..groweþ on haseles, þat beþ trees þat growen in groues.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)180/18 : Of the mastes & the seyll ȝerdes it semed a grete wode or a groue.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)215 : Grove, lytyl wode: Lucus.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)13557 : Þan se þai besyde..A grete herte in a grove.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1659 : At brigge or hard passage..Is good to falle vppon; or if ther be Mire or mareys or woode or grovis rowe.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.38/4 : Sauyng to þem here parkes and groves of fforsthull.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)141 : Namely in grobbyng and stokkyng off treis, busses, and groves.
- a1500 Ouer all gatis (StJ-C S.54)p.95 : Amonge the grovys so fayer and grene, So fayer a brownch than know I non As Ivy ys.
b
- (1128-35) EPNSoc.5 (North Riding Yks.)220 : Holgrave.
- (1130) EPNSoc.24 (Oxf.)320 : Graftona.
- (1196) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.7106 : Rogeri de la Graue.
- (1201) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.1433 : Ut R. capiat homagium suum de feodo..j mititis in Attegraue.
- (1221) Bk.of Fees1339 : Sibilla de la Grave.
- (1248) EPNSoc.6 (Sus.)21 : Graffham.
- (1251) Close R.Hen.III415 : R. de la Grove.
- (1257) EPNSoc.16 (Wil.)432 : Schortegrove.
- (1271) EPNSoc.16 (Wil.)432 : Le Brodegrove.
- (1292) Pat.R.Edw.I515 : William atte Grove.
- (1296) Sub.R.Lewes in Sus.AC 2306 : Ric. de la grove.
- (1299) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames88 : Henr. de la Haygrave.
- (1327) Sub.R.Som.in Som.RS 3116 : Alicia atte Grove.
- (1327) Sub.R.Som.in Som.RS 3229 : Rogerus in the Grove.
- (1327) Sub.R.Stf.in WSAS 7248 : Willelmus atte Grave.
- (1330) EPNSoc.6 (Sus.)21 : Groffham.
- (1332) in Wallenberg PNKent187 : De Grofherst.
- (1428) Feudal Aids 4199 : Willelmus atte Grove.
- (1438) EPNSoc.16 (Wil.)432 : Shepegrove.
- a1500(1338) Cart.Boarstall in OHS 88172 : In quadam placea uocata Bastardesgrove.