Middle English Dictionary Entry
hai(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hai(e n. |
| Etymology | AF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A net for catching wild animals, esp. rabbits; ~ net.
Associated quotations
- [ (1389) Statutes Realm1.65 : Nene use..haies, rees, harepipes, ne cordes, ne nulles autres engynnes pour prendre ou destruire savagine levres ne conilles. ]
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.98 : Hayes, pursnetes [worth 20 marks].
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)37 : Men taken hem [foxes] with houndes, with greihoundes, with haies, and with pursnettis.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)41 : Þei hunte hem [rabbits] with ferettis and wiþ long smale haies.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)220 : Haye, net to catche conys wythe: Cassis.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)913 : The conyngz fro couert courid þe bankes..But any hovnd hente þaym or þe hay-nettes.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)213 : They hadde nettys made of grete cordys of iiij fethem of lengthe and of iiij fote brode, lyke unto an haye.