Middle English Dictionary Entry
kidel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | kidel n. Also kedel. |
| Etymology | AL & AF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A stationary fence made of stakes, wattles, and nets set in rivers or along seacoasts for catching fish; the net on such a weir; ~ man, one who has charge of a kiddle, ?a maker of kiddles; (b) in surnames & place names.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1209) Pipe R.Winch67/54 : In iij kidellis et filo ad idem et aliis reparandis. ]
- [ (1351-2) RParl.2.240a : Qe touz les gortz, kydels, molyns, & autres nusantz..en Thamyse..fuissent abatuz. ]
- (1313) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.108 : [The said net, which is called a] kidel [is too narrow].
- (1344) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.220 : [The third net, called a] kydel [was claimed by no one].
- (1376) Doc.in HMC Rep.4 App.427 : [W. Spite,] Kidelman.
- (1406) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.283 : [The king's predecessors had granted to the citizens of London the right of removing] kydels [in Thames and Medway].
- (1472-5) RParl.6.158b : By the laudable Statute of Magna Carta, amonges other, it is ordeyned, that all Kidels by Thamys, Medewey, and by all this Reame, shuld be put dowen..commen passages of Shippes and Bootes in the grete Ryvers of Englond, were so often tymes distourbed by rearyng Weres, Milles, Pondes, Stakes, and Kidelx.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)2030 : Fishes loue soote smell..they loue not olde kydels as they do the newe.
b
- (1219) Bk.of Fees271 : Simon Kidel.
- (1250) Close R.Hen.III324 : John Kedel.
- a1307(c1280) Cust.Battle Abbey in Camd.n.s.4142 : Walterus Kydelman.
- (1327) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms110 : Katarina Kydelman.
- (1376) Doc.in HMC Rep.4 App.427 : [A place called] Le Kidelman hope.