Middle English Dictionary Entry
hō̆l(e adj.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | hō̆l(e adj.(1) Also holle & (errors) how, halle. |
| Etymology | OE hol adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of clothing, garments: full of holes; (b) hollow; cavernous; empty; of wounds: containing a cavity; (c) of objects: deeply concave; of eyes: sunken, hollow; of persons:?lank, cadaverous; ~ bacin (trough), a deep basin (trough); ~ barwe, a handbarrow with a deep box; ~ wei [OE hol weg], a sunken road [see also sense 2.]; (d) curved, concave; ~ tile(s, tiles curved to fit over crests or edges, or into grooves, of a roof; (e) ?spongy, porous; ~ rish, the papyrus reed (Cyperus papyrus).
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)6.61 : I wil..cast on me my clothes, yclouted and hole.
- (c1465) Invent.Cirencester in BGAS 18 (Bod 6530)328 : xxi Carchaff, Broke & hole.
b
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)965 : Sholde ich for one hole brede, Forlete mine riȝte stude?
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Arun 220)173 : Une cave: an hol roche.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.65v : Centumcapita [i.e. chives].. is nermor but of heyht & mykele & shap & hole as ȝong oynenet.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.83r : [Faba] Is an erbe þat sowyd or set in gardyn or in feld comeþ vp fowre-fleggyd [L: angulosa; Add: foure-egged], gret & hol [L: concava] & knotty & beryng leuys in his knottys [cp. Gerard: The great Beane riseth vp with a foure-square stalke, smooth, hollow.].
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)14/291 : Ane holl staue þan ordand he, And þorein hid he hys mone.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)35/9 : All þe treesse in þe werld..failed in þaire hertes and become holle within.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)242 : Hol, as pypys, or percyd thyngys: Cavus.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)74/16,17 : He gert perche þam [the statues] for to witt wheþer þay ware holle or massy, And he fand þat þay were a party holle.
- 1448 Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58)251 : Hii made a kynge's fourme, and hym al hol [A: holu] with ynne.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Add 17866)1074 : Iff a wounde be holl or depe, Ther off a leche most tak gode kepe.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)140 : In these dayes was Arthures body founde in the cherch ȝerd at Glaskinbury in a hol hok [cp.Higd. 8.63].
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)64b : Holle: inanis.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)9/7 : Who that Ianglis any more, He must blaw my blak hoill bore, both behynd and before.
c
- ?c1335 Elde makiþ me (Hrl 913)p.171 : I was heordmon, nov am holle; Al folk of me beþ wel folle.
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)54 : For to wete yf a seke man sal lyve or dy..his eres waxes calde; his eighen waxes holle.
- (1419) *Will Bury155a : I be-qweþe Isbel..an hol-basyn & the beste flat basyn.
- c1440(a1400) Awntyrs Arth.(Thrn)116 : Hir eghne ware holkede fulle holle [rime: cholle, polle], Glowand als gledis.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1083 : Huke-nebbyde as a hawke and [with] a hore berde And herede to þe hole eyghn with hyngande browes.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)68/2 : A knyghte..fand water standynge in an holle stane.
- (1444) Will York in Sur.Soc.30102 : Item, lego eidem j de iiij pelvibus counterfetts sine lavacro cum j holbasyn.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)49 : This conk is hewyn owt of a blak ston schapyn lich a hol trow.
- c1450 Metham Physiog.(Gar 141)130/1 : Euery holle eye, be sympyl sygnyfycacion, betokyn euyl.
- c1450 Siege Jerus.(1) (Add 31042)662 : Holle [Ld: Brode walles..Wonder heye to byholde with holwe diches vnder].
- (1454) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99149 : j holl barowe, j stane barowe.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4923 : I wille she haue the grettere hol basyn of ij smale basynes.
- (1480-1) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9996 : Pro factura unius hollbarowe.
- a1500(?a1400) KEdw.& S.(Cmb Ff.5.48)471 : This cuppe..is holl.
- a1500 PParv.(KC 8)242 : Hol [Hrl 221: Holow; L Concauus] as vesselle or other lyke.
- (a1500) Collect.Anglo-Premonst.in RHS ser.3.6264 : Item, in ye buttre ii tabille clothis & a towelle..two halle water fattes & a strynkill of lattone.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)798 : Nomina Terrarum..traco: a hollewey.
d
- (1333) *Acc.de Weston (PRO)Bundle 469 No.15 m.7 : Pro c de holtyl empt' pro coquina, ii s.
- 1348 *Acc.Exch.K.R.470/18.m.2 [OD col.] : In D tegulis et xxv holtyl emptis.
- (1376) Doc.in Rogers Hist.Agric.2438 : Holtiles.
e
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)244 : Holrysche, or bulrysche [vrr. hool ryschyn, holryschyne]: Papirus.
2.
In surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.257-8].
Associated quotations
- (1201) Fine R.King John123 : Henricus filius Alani de Holond.
- (1242) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)461 : Holebem.
- (1260) Close R.Hen.III258 : Petrus atte Holebrok de Cherlewode.
- (1279) Assize R.Nhb.in Sur.Soc.88398 : Alan Holpot.
- (1296) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames103 : Thom. atte Holstrete.
- (1312) Pat.R.Edw.II472 : Gilbert Holebon.
- (1322) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)608 : Holecombe juxta Gydesham.
- (1326) Pat.R.Edw.II330 : William Holebag.
- (1333) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames103 : Walt. atte Holeweye.
- (1343) in Mawer PNNhb.& Dur.116 : Holstanmore.
- (1350-1) Acc.Chester in LCRS 59167 : [A certain sluice called] Holpolegote.
- (1382) in Mawer PNNhb.& Dur.115 : Holforth.
- c1425 Liber de Hyda in RS 45169 : From Foxsladys Ende to the how wey [L concavam viam]; fro the how wey to Kynewyrdys tre.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)557/19 : Half an acre in the same feld, beside the holewey.
- a1500(c1294) Cart.Boarstall in OHS 88181 : Sic per le Holeweye usque Menemersh.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Trin-C.R.14.45 Recipes (Trin-C R.14.45) 138/36 : Whan þou seest þat þi pottis be rede hote withinne, take a ladil of iren þat be ful of smal holis as a skomer and stere..þanne whanne hit is of þat colour do oute þe fire and late þe lede kele by hymself inne þe same pottis, or ellis take hit out with a hole ladil and put hit inne a basyn or a panne and late hit kelen.
Note: Glossary: "hole adj. 'holey, full of holes'."
Note: ?New cpd. ~ ladel, or additional quot., sense 1.(a) with modified gloss. -- 'Of clothing, garments, utensils:'
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.58rb (2.7) : Þat it [the trachea] is holle is be cause þat þe aire mai esely entre & passe þerby.
Note: Additional quot., prob. sense 1.(b).