Middle English Dictionary Entry
heǧǧing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | heǧǧing(e ger. Also heching(e. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Making or repairing a hedge or palisade; also enclosing with a hedge; ~ silver, money payment in commutation of hedging service; (b) a hedge, stake fence, barrier or covering resembling a hedge; (c) a field surrounded by a hedge, an enclosure; (d) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (1405) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100400 : Et pro 2 securibus empt. pro heggyng.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.28 : Makinge of erberis..wolde distrie þis pasture and lyf of þe comouns, boþe for dichyng and hegging and delvynge of tounes.
- (1445) Inquis.PM Hen.VI in Seld.Soc.13xxxv fn. : Cum wynd fallynwode, dere fallyn wode, cabliciis wodsylver, heggyngsylver, attachiamentis forestariorum.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)42a : How ofte oon laboureþ..and how ofte anoþer, in dychinge, in heggynge..and beringe of tymber.
- (1463-5) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 10106 : Ite. we payde for heggyng of ye chyrch howse..x d.
- (1475) Stonor1.152 : To Crystmas for heggyng, ij d.; to þe seyd Crystmas on seynt Mathewes for þe hegyng of þe rowde crofte, ij d.
b
- (1399) Doc.York in Sur.Soc.35132 : Pro xxj rodis de hegyng circa le spring in Langwath.
- (1434-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99232 : Pro le heggeyng circa tassas.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)65b : In þe ynner side of the diche moot be made stronge hegginge of stakes and bowes of trees to holde yn þe lose erþe of bank.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)27/14 : Þis knyght..garte make a hedgyng our þis dyke, at sho [the stork] mot nott wyn þerto.
c
- (1235-52) Cust.Glastonbury in Som.RS 529 : Eadem tenet unam heching juxta domum suam et reddit inde annuatim xij d.
- (1235-52) Cust.Glastonbury in Som.RS 534 : Willelmus Faber pro quodam prato quod vocatur la Hechinge iij sol. ad iiij anni terminos.
- (1235-52) Cust.Glastonbury in Som.RS 578 : Gregorius de Billingmere..dat j d..pro j parva hechinge juxta croftam suam.
d
- (1243) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames96 : Joh. de la Heginge.