Middle English Dictionary Entry
hogges-hēd n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hogges-hēd n. |
| Etymology | From hogge n. (1) & hēd n.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A large cask or barrel, hogshead; (b) the hogshead as a liquid measure, approx. 63 gallons.
Associated quotations
a
- (1390) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)5.157 : [A tun, two pipes, and a] hoggeshed [of wine].
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5223/16 : Clerico panetrie..pro ij barellis et j hoogeshed..pro floure imponendo xviij d.
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52156/30 : xiiij doliis vacantibus, ij pipes, v hoggeshedes.
- (a1451) Will York in Sur.Soc.45100 : In coquina et in aliis domibus..j hoggishede, iij d.
- (1453) Invent.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.12210 : j hogyshed pro aceto.
- (1455) Lin.DDoc.67/8 : j hoggeshed cum ij kyuerys.
- (1468) Acc.Howard in RC 57515 : Item, paid to hyr fore an hogeshed.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)207 : They..smote owte the heddys of the pypys and hoggys hedys of wyne.
b
- (1423) RParl.4.256a : Tonnes, Pipes, Tertians, Hoggeshedes of wyn of Gascoign, barrel of Heryng and Eles, and buttes of Samon, comyng be wey of Merchandise into this lond, oute of straunge Countrees, and also in this land ymade, shulden be of certein mesure; that is to sey..the Hoggeshede IIIxx III galons.
- (1427-8) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)168/16 : For a hoggisheed of Wyne to Adam Semy for his labour..Summa xxvj s. viij d.
- (1432) Indent.in HSLC 3105 : I ordayne..the sayde William to deliver to the sayde Nicholas a hoggeshed of Wyn.
- (1434) *Proc.Chanc.PRO ser.C 1 file 9no.195 : Whether þat ony pipe, tonne, or hoggeshede come to my possession, warde, or Kepyng.
- (1444) RParl.5.117a : What man sell a Tonne or Pipe, Tercian or Hoggeshede, of Wyne, Oyle or Hony, or than hit be gauged, that he shall forfait hit to the Kyng.
- a1500 Weights in RHS ser.3.41 (Vsp E.9)15 : The hogg[eshed] cont[aineth] lxii gallounes and dim..but who some euer schall retayle any tunne or pype, hoggeshed or barell, he schall rakyn..the hoggeshed lx gallounes.