Middle English Dictionary Entry
hakking(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | hakking(e ger. Also hac(c)hing. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The action of chopping or hacking; the chopping up of meat in small pieces; (b) the carving or engraving of ornament; (c) ~ hamer, a tool for breaking or shaping stone; ~ stok, a chopping block.
Associated quotations
a
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)222 : Hakkynge, or hewynge: Sectio.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)11 : Vse hym euer to hackynge..and till he flyethe fro tre to tre, he woll come to hackynge; then he woll not come, but thu moste hacke and leue his mete opon a borde in his neste.
b
- (1389) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.513 : [That no one in the same trade, i.e. the trade of founders, shall make..any work in the way of] hachyng.
- ?c1450 Chaucer HF (Pep 2006)1303 : It nedeth [not] yow for to telle..Of these yates florysynges, Ne of compases, ne of kervenges, Ne how the hackynge in Masours, As corbettes and ymagyryes.
c
- (1398) Will York in Sur.Soc.4250 : j celedyngclayth, j hakkynghamer, ij files.
- 1592 Chester Pl.(Add 10305)1.47 : Hear is a good hacckinge stoccke; One this you maye hewe and knocke.
2.
?A clearing in a forest, an assart.
Associated quotations
- (1336) Deed Yks.in YASRS 6556 : [An assart called] le Hackyng.