Middle English Dictionary Entry
hēding(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | hēding(e ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Decapitation, beheading; (b) fixing a head on a barrel, etc.; making or repairing the top of an anvil.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)22860 : Þe men þat..wit hefding [Frf: heueding; Trin-C: hedyng] draght or hanging spilt.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)113a/a : Be þai [serpentez] put after þe decollacioun i. heuedyng [L decolationem] in alembic & be þer made water.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)238 : Hevedynge [vr. hedynge]: Decapitacio.
- a1450 St.Kath.(3) (Richardson 44)67 : Thou madest in hire hedynge mylke to flowe out for blood.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)52.79 (v.1:p.328) : She was ledde forth to the hefdyng-ward.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)190 : Thomas was juged to drawying, hanging, an hedyng.
b
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5222/29 : Clerico panetrie..pro hedynge iiij doliorum pro floure imponendo.
- (1463) Acc.Howard in RC 57193 : Payd to Peter Garn for hopyng and hedyng and settyng in of hedys of pypys and barells.
- (1472) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3581 : Roberto Smyth pro hedyng incudis pro fabro.