Middle English Dictionary Entry
hauking ger.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | hauking ger.(1) Also haukin. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Hunting game with a hawk; ~ and huntinge, huntinge and ~, hunting with hawks and hunting with hounds; (b) riden on ~, to ride out with a hawk to hunt; faren (wenden) on ~, go a-hawking.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.83 : Þey..lyueþ by huntynge and haukynge [Higd.(2): by hawkenge and huntenge; L venatu et aucupio].
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)679 : Now can Alisaundre..of huntyng, And of ryuer, of haukyng, Of bataile.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)3.311 : Huntynge or haukynge [C: Haukyng oþer hontyng] if any of hem vse, His boste of his benefys worth bynome hym after.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1279 : For fyschyng, foulyng, & haukyng..þe place was inly delittable.
- (1423) RParl.4.238 : Item, l bagge de lyn' toell embroudes pur Haukyng, pris 5 s.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.1070 : In haukyng, huntyng stood his felicite.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)230 : Hawkynge: Falconatus.
- (1442) Invent.Gild in PSAL ser.2.5121 : In primis, unum dorsour lyned with Canvas of Arras Werk of hawkyng.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)4453 : A mon horribilyche y-boundone in preson was By-cause of hawkyng & of boke-hondynge.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)41 : Hawkynge, huntynge, and dawnsynge, Thow moste forgo for any thynge.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)139/7 : Thys disporte and game of hawkyng is laborous and ryght noyous also as me semyth.
- c1460 Ipom.(3) (Lngl 257)325/35 : He had no list to iusting ne to tourneing no to manhede, bot all only to hunting and to hauking.
- (1469) Paston (Gairdner)5.22 : I purpose to use the fyrst poynt of hawkyng, to hold fast and I maye.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)17 : In all poyntes of hawkynge, experience is chef.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)61b : Hawkyng [Monson: an Hawkynge]: Aucupatus.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)932 : Havkyng, hunteng, he cowd good skill ther on.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)703/9 : Hoc aucipium: a hawkynge.
b
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)28/308 : Ich a faucoun on hond bere, And riden on haukin bi o riuere.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)3552 : Oppon a fair day..þe A[myral] wolde To þe ryuer an haukyng fare.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Th.(Manly-Rickert)B.1927 : He koude hunte at wilde deer And ride an [vr. on] haukyng for ryuer With grey goshauk on honde.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.1779 : In tyme of trewe, on haukyng wolde he ride.
- a1500(?c1400) Triam.(Cmb Ff.2.38)1177 : They went on hawkyng be the rever.