Middle English Dictionary Entry
hurtǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hurtǒur n. Also hortour. |
| Etymology | OF hurtëoir |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An iron plate protecting the shoulder of an axle where it strikes the hub of a wheel; also a plate with a similar purpose on the box of a cart.
Associated quotations
- (1289) R.Swinfield in Camd.59134 : In axis, hurturs, & ceteris..ad carectam, vij d.
- (1300-1) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100502 : In 5 coler, cruperiis..sellis, hurtur', buklis.
- (c1310) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100511 : In 16 Cluttis et 1 Hortour empt. pro Carect.
- (c1330) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100518 : In 16 carteclutis, 2 lynpinnes, 2 Haxnailles, 2 Hurtours emp., 23 d.
- (1348) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2933 : Item, ix hortours.
- (1350) Doc.Hatfield in Sur.Soc.32218 : In viij wyndbandes et iiij hurtours empt., 11 d.
- (1398) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.188 : [2] lynces [and] hortours [of iron worth 2 d.].
- (1399) Acc.R.Lane in Archaeol.58358 : [One cart body with ladder,] braypynnes, [and iron] hurturs.
- (1404-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100399 : 2 plogh pattyl, 1 hurtour, 2 ryngis.