Middle English Dictionary Entry
họ̄p n.
Entry Info
| Forms | họ̄p n. Also hope, ope, hoppe, whope, houpe, hupe. Pl. họ̄pes & (early) họ̄pæ. |
| Etymology | ?OE; cp. OFris. hōp, MDu. hoep, OI hōp. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A circular band of wood or metal, used for barrels, wheels, candelabra; a hoop, ring; welle ~, q.v.; (b) a circular band used to support the sign outside a house or inn; (c) one of the ribs of a ship; (d) something circular; (e) a measure for grain, salt, etc.; also, a container holding this quantity; tol ~, a measure taken as customs duty (f) a finger ring of simple design, a wedding band.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)22/9-14 : Ða het he wurcean ænne seolfrene hop of þrittiȝæ pundon & bismeoðian abutæn þæt treow..& allswa felæ ȝearæ swa hit ðer weox, swa fela seolfrenæ hopæ he ðerto dyde.
- 1325 *Acc.Exch.K.R.165/1.m.4 [OD col.] : Pro..cloutnayl pro capitibus et hopes de xxxj barrellis plenis ferro.
- (1351) in Neilson Ramsey Abbeyapp.61 : In iii hoopis ferreis emptis pro rotis, vi d.
- (1362) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2944 : In custodia prepositi..j gang de felys..v hupes ferri.
- (1370) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2953 : j nova caruca, vij hupes ferri.
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5222/30 : Clerico Panetrie..pro hedynge iiij doliorum pro floure imponendo, et pro hopes..dictorum doliorum.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)246b/a : The ryndes þerof [willow] beþ longe and þikke..and þerof beþ y-made bondes and hoopis [L vincula].
- (1423-4) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.177/1154-5 : Item, for iij newe hopes to ij tobbes, ij d. ob. Item, for vj hopes to iij Fattes and to dyuers tubbus, vj d.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)245 : Hoope, vesselle byyndynge: Cuneus, circulus.
- (1446) Invent.Lytham in Chet.n.s.6083 : viij rakes, j verious barell, ij yren opes for the Milne.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)128 : Men knowen nouht wyne bi the hoopes [F sarciaux; vr. tonneaux], ne folk bi the clothinge.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)151/2 : Virell þe staff wel at bothe endys with hopy[s] of yren or laten.
- (1466) Rec.St.Stephen in Archaeol.5035 : j pyne with a whele for to put candill ther on, and iij othur hopes made faste on the pillers..for to put candill ther on.
- (1472-3) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103644 : Pro le laynge fusi et rynde molendini..ac cum 16 d. solut. pro 2 hopis empt.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)168 : Loke þy bagges be hoopid at þe mothe a-bove..hange þy bagges sure by þe hoopis.
b
- (1348) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)1.566 : [His tenement called] le Cok in the houpe.
- (1366) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)2.100 : [A tenement called] le Bole atte Whope.
- (1384) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)4.153 : [The brewhouse at] le Hood sur le Hoop.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.91 : [A tenement called] le Ship onthehop..[a tenement called] le Wollesakonthehop.
- (a1420) Trin-C.Dial.in Romania 32 (Trin-C B.14.40)p.50 : Ou serroums loggez?..Syre, a le molyn sur le hop..[que] est le meillour hostell d'icelle ville [Oxford].
- (1435) Close R.Hen.VI358 : [An inn called] Swan o the hope.
- (1466) Liber Albus Oxf.76 : [A messuage..called] Boole on the hope.
- (1476) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)2.574 : [A brewery called] Le Potte on the hope.
c
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)190 : A ship..j sigh..bounden with hoopes [F cerciaus] al aboute..But summe of the hoopes weren slaked for defaute of oseres..But the hoopes hadden not the wrong.
- c1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Tbr A.7)22021-8 : The smale osyers..To-brake thanne, and wente asonder, The hopes about the vessel, Bycause they were not bounde wel. Ȝit the hoopes..Were stronge I-nowgh..But, ffor the osyers..were broke ffyrste, Wherffore the hoopys were vnbounde.
d
- c1450 Metham Physiog.(Gar 141)127/14 : In euery..ey..ther ys a cerkyl of sundry colourys..this hope in sundry eyn ys colouryd lyke the reynbow.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)807 : Hic circulus: a hope.
e
- a1150 in NQ ser.8.8125 : Hec est firma Monachorum..xx Hops de brasio et x de Gruto.
- (1173) in Pipe R.Soc.19188 : Pro lv Hopis de Sale..lxvii s. & xj d.
- (1209) Doc.Manor in MP 3460 : In præbenda senescalli, iij quarters, iij hops.
- (c1270) *Cust.Gt.Faringdon [OD col.] (Barl 49)lf.22b : Pro carectata salis dabitur vnus discus salis qui continere debet unum tolhop, uel vnus denarius.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)34 : For of flex ȝe haue þyze hoppes [F busceaux], And of hempe þyze cordez.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)45 : Thilke bred..ye haue enclosed and put..in so litel a closure vnder so litel an hopp [F masure].
- (1472) RParl.6.38 : Thomas Flete..toke away..cc Hopes; Item, x Barrell; Item, v larg Pypes.
- a1525(?1466) Cov.Leet Bk.334 : They have ordenyd that the wardens Make ij strikis, ij halfe strykis, ij hopes..& the mesuris to be delyueryd by the comyn seriant to delyuer hem..Also they woll that no retaylers..take no hyr for..hopus lande to the salters.
f
- (1487) Will Uvedale in SAC 3166 : I bequeathe to Robert my sonne..iii Ringes of goold, the oon with a Safir, another with a square Dyamant, the third a hoope of goold with the which I was wedded to..Sir Thomas Uvedale his fader.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hoop.