Middle English Dictionary Entry
harpeis n.
Entry Info
| Forms | harpeis n. Also arpeis. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. CF harpois. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A kind of pitch or tar.
Associated quotations
- (1323) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.209 : De uno schippund de harpeys, iiii d.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)79/6 : To maken a syred cloth. Tak a quarte of wax, and a quart of arpeys, l quart of perysyn, [etc.].