Middle English Dictionary Entry
ketel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ketel n. Also cetel & chetel, (S) chitel & (in place names) kettel, chedel, chidel, chithel, shetil. |
| Etymology | ON (cp. OI ketill) & OE (cp. A cetel, WS cytel). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A pot for cooking, a kettle, a caldron; also fig.; (b) as surname; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.91; 2.3].
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)548/15 : Cacabus: chetel.
- a1325 SLeg.Juliana (Corp-C 145)54 : A chitel uol of iwalled bras biuore þis maide was ibroȝt.
- a1325 SLeg.Juliana (Corp-C 145)171 : A chitel [vr. chetel] hi sette þer mid fur & fulde hit fol of lede.
- (1344-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100379 : j ketil de plumbo.
- (1355-6) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.518 : In magno chetel emendando iij s. ix d.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Lev.11.35 : Forneyses oþer cheteles [vr. ketels; L chytropodes] sholen be destrued.
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52171/18 : Super officio scutellarie pro j ketell eneo empto ibidem, xx s. pr.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)107.9 : Moab ketel [vr. pot; L lebes] of mi hope is.
- 1409(1338) Doc.in Nicolas Navy 2475 : Un canon de ferr ove II chambres, un autre de bras ove une chambre, un ketill, un spogeour.
- a1425 NHom.(3) Leg.Suppl.Hrl.(Hrl 4196)26/84 : Pottes and pannes & oþer slyke Als ketils, crassetes to kechin like.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)273 : Ketyl, or chetyle, or caudrone: Cacabus, lebes.
- (1444) Will York in Sur.Soc.30100 : Item, lego eidem j ketill enneum cum le klpe.
- (1453) Invent.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.12222 : Item, ij magne ketell in fornace.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4923 : j bras pot, a chetill, a panne, a litell chafour.
- (?c1466) Acc.Yatton in Som.RS 482 : For the hyr of chetill of John Crose, iiij d.
- (a1500) Collect.Anglo-Premonst.in RHS ser.3.6263 : In coquina two panis, a kettille, a littille pot.
b
- (1180-90) Cart.Eynsham in OHS 49120 : His testibus, magistro Nicholao de Leuechenora..magistro Chetel.
- (1197) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.8243 : Rogerus Ketel.
- (1251) Close R.Hen.III494 : Johannes Ketel.
- (1390-1) Leet R.Norwich in Seld.Soc.572 : Johannes Breton fecit districcionem in Regia via super Andream Ketyll.
c
- (1189) EPNSoc.35 (West Riding Yks.)107 : Ketelewell.
- (1201) in Ekwall Dict.EPN94 : Chetilton [Stf.].
- (1219) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)338 : Chitelmetun.
- (1235) in Ekwall Dict.EPN261 : Ketelberwe [Suf.].
- (1242) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)338 : Chedelhampton.
- (1249) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)338 : Chithelamton.
- (1303) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)527 : Chitelford.
- (1317) in Mawer PNNhb.& Dur.43 : Shetilhop.
- (c1320) in Mawer PNNhb.& Dur.43 : Chetilhopp.
- (1408) EPNSoc.35 (West Riding Yks.)107 : Kettilwell.
- (1428) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)338 : Chydelhampton.
- (1443) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)527 : Chetelford.
- (1446-58) EPNSoc.34 (West Riding Yks.)185 : Ketilstrynge.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. kettle.