Middle English Dictionary Entry
hō̆ndel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hō̆ndel n. Also hondle, handle, handel. Pl. hō̆ndels, hō̆ndlen. |
| Etymology | OE handle, handele. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A handle of a container, implement, etc.; -- also pl.; a handle for turning a wheel, guiding a plow, wielding a shield; of a staff:?a grip; also fig. [quots.: c1450]; (b) a hilt of a sword; -- also pl.; (c) a small loop or eyelet; (d) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)51/556 : Forte turnen þet hweol wið hondlen imaket þron.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)912 : En la carue avez vous Divers nouns..Le manual [glossed:] handel.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)854 : Lapparayle pur charue..Manuel et tenoun: Handle and stilte.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)330b/a : Amphora haþ þat name of ansis, handel, by þe whiche y-houe hider and þider.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)330b/b : Amphora..haþ that name ansis hondeles as it is y-seide tofore.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)164/17 : Þei..holden it for a gret synne -- for to smyte an hors with the handill of a whippe.
- (1434) EEWills102/17 : Y bequethe Maut Cokkeman..a staf with an handell.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)225 : Handyl of an instrument, what so euer hyt be: Manutentum.
- (1449) Will York in Sur.Soc.45111 : De j magna olla ænea cum j handell ferri.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)65/21-2 : Þi scope of penauns muste haue an handyll for to holde wyth þi scope in þin handys..þe handyll is satisfaccyoun.
- (1453) Will York in Sur.Soc.30189 : Item, j long candilstik..with j handill.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)6095 : Hee strake Generides vppon the sheld, It all to brast..The handdell it fell in to the feld.
b
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)12a/a : Capulus: an hilt or an hondel of a swerde.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)28.217 : The handyl Of this swerd..tweyne Skales it hadde..Of two diuers bestes.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)53/15 : Whan they come to the swerde that the honde hylde, than kynge Arthure toke hit up by the hondils.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)60a : A handyll of a swerde: Capulus, manutentum.
c
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ex.26.4 : Thou schalt make handels [WB(1): litil oyletis; L ansulas] of iacynt in the sidis, and hiȝnessis of curtyns, that tho moun be couplid to gidere.
d
- (1327) Sub.R.Glo.(2) in BGAS 19271 : William de Handlesettare.