Middle English Dictionary Entry
horner(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | horner(e n. |
| Etymology | From horn n.. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who makes horns, buttons, etc., of horn; a member of a guild of horners; (b) one who blows a horn; (c) as a surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (1303) Cal.Exch.in Palgrave Kalendars 1255 : Jacobus le Horner & Botener.
- (1413) Doc.in HMC Rep.9 App.16 : [Richard Toteford], horner.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)247 : Hornare, or horne make[r]: Cornutarius.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)57b : Cornu, þe horn, is token of þe oxe or of þe bugle, þe whiche arayed by craft of horneres and blowid wiþ þe blast of manis mouþ [makeþ] a fer herd soun.
- (1454-5) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)364 : The good Folkes of the mistier of horners enfraunchised of this Citee..the makyng of hornes and other werke perteignyng unto their said mistier beth not profitely hadd nor conned in eny Region or place of the world except in this land.
- (1464) RParl.5.567a : The men of the Craft of Horners enfraunchised in the Cite of London.
b
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)575/31 : Cornicarius: an hornere.
c
- (1256) Close R.Hen.III311 : Rogerus Horner.
- (1275) in Fransson Surn.167 : Will. le Hornare.
- (1281) Hundred R.Tower 2664 : Matild. le Hornere.
- (1347) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.p.liv : Robert Hornere.
- (1363) Cart.St.John in OHS 69128 : Laurencius Horner.
- (1421) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3546 : Thomæ Hornar de Petergate pro hornyng et naillyng superscriptorum librorum.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1475-6) MSS Beverley in HMC102 : [Every] horner et tynkler et wiredrawar [to contribute to maintenance of the light 12 d. a year].
Note: Quot. postdates sense (a).
- (1390) Doc.Beverley in Seld.Soc.1433 : Ordinatum est..quod quilibet artifices ville Beverlaci, viz. mercers et drapers, tannatores, masons, skynners..cutlers, latoners, brochemakers, horners, sponers, ladilers..and workmen habeant suos ludos et pagentes paratos amodo qualibet die in festo Corporis Christi.
Note: Needed for date in sense (a).
- (1422-3) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)7 : [Came John, son of Thomas Elsey..before William Walderne..and showed that whereas he had been admitted to the freedom of the City in the Mistery of] 'Hornyers' [..he had long used, and was now using, the Mistery of] 'Bruers.'
Note: New spelling: Also hornier.
Note: Quot. belongs to sense 1.(a).--all notes per MLL