Middle English Dictionary Entry
jūment n.
Entry Info
| Forms | jūment n. |
| Etymology | OF jument & L jūmentum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A beast of burden.
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.1.24 : Bryng forþ þe erþ soule lyuyng in his kynde: iumentez [vr. bestayle; WB(2): werk beestis] & crepyng þinges & beestes of þe erþe.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 23.24 : Make ȝe redy iumentis, or hors [L jumenta], that thei puttinge Poul vpon, schulden lede him saf to Felix.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Apoc.18.13 : The marchaundises..of iumentis, or werk beestes, and sheep and horses, [etc.].
- c1390 Psalt.Mariae(1) (Vrn)692 : Heil cite of god and man, Of whuche þe foundement Buylded þe Samaritan, Þat us vppon his iument Sette.