Middle English Dictionary Entry
hater(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | hater(e n.(1) Also hatter, heater, hetter. Pl. hateren, hatren, hattren, hettren & hatres, haterez & (?coll.) hater(e, hattir, hattre. |
| Etymology | OE; cp. WS hæteru, -ra n.pl.; ?Merc. *heatru, *hetera. For double pl. forms, cp. child-er-en. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Clothes, garments, clothing; -- pl. or coll.; (b) a garment [see also barm ~]; (c) torn garment(s, rags; (d) in surnames; ~ mongere, a seller of clothing.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30778 : Alle his hateren weoren to-toren.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30810 : And buȝe þe þer mide hateren, þat wið chele þe maȝen werien.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)56/20 : Ha..habbeð her of irnes swat, oðer of heren..oðer of swati hettren [Tit: hattre; Nero: hateren; Cleo: claðes].
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)215/21 : Mendið chirche claðes & poure monne hettren [Nero: cloðes].
- c1300 Assump.Virg.(1) (Cmb Gg.4.27)115/149 : He dude of al hire hatere [Add: hure cloþes alle] And wessch hire body wyþ clene watere.
- a1350 Mon in þe mone (Hrl 2253)6 : Þe þornes beþ kene, is hattren to-tereþ.
- c1330(?a1300) KAlex.(Auch)380/114 : Her mete is brede, erbe, and water; Naked þai gon wiþouten hater.
- c1330 St.Greg.(Auch)91/433 : Til ich wite who be mi fader, No schal y neuer bliþe be, And who me ȝaf cloþ and hater.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)5581 : Pore men..spred here hatren on here barme.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)20211 : Of scho did tan al hir hater.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4257 : Hors and kyng, wiþ alle his hater, Weren a met-ȝerd vnder þe water.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)33 : Hyȝ not to heven in haterez totorne.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)16542 : Eche man..caste on hem cloke & copes To saue hem fro the salt water, That it be-sprenged not her hater.
- a1450 SLeg.Fran.(2) (Bod 779)441 : Þis holyman..hadde þo non hater but onliche on cirtil.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4118 : Wemen þai faund With bare hedes as a barne & berdis to þe pappis, And had na hattir þam to hele bot hidis of bestis.
- a1500 MS Cmb.Ff.2.38 in Halliwell D.437 : Sche strypyd of hur hatere.
- c1450 St.Patr.Purg.(2) (Clg A.2)403 : They drewe hym be þe hatere tyll þey come to a gret water.
b
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)214/28 : Ȝe schulen in an hetter [Tit: hatter; Nero: heater] ant igurd liggen.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)20211 : Of did scho sone ilke hater.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)14.1 : 'I Haue but one hatere,' quod Haukyn; 'I am the lasse to blame Though it be soiled and selde clene -- I slepe there-inne on niȝtes.'
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)10.157 : He couthe come..to an hater to helye with hus bones.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)267/360 : I have here a hatir to hyde hym.
c
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)229 : Hatyr, rent clothe: Scrutum, pannucia.
d
- (1224) Close R.Tower 1629 : Wibert Haterclut.
- (1249) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)1.25 : Robert le Haterchurl.
- (1250-1) Cart.Oseney in OHS 90363 : Elia le Hatermongere.
- (1280) Cart.Oseney in OHS 91121 : Domus Hattermonger.