Middle English Dictionary Entry
kipre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | kipre n. Also kiper, kippre. |
| Etymology | ?OE cypera |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The male salmon or sea trout during the spawning season; ?also the female during the same season; (b) ?the salmon, sea trout, and possibly other fish which have been cured by salting and smoking.
Associated quotations
a
- (1376) RParl.2.331b : Qe null Salmon soit pris en Tamise entre Graveshend & le Pount de Henlee sur Tamise en temps q'il soit kiper: C'est assavoir, entre les Festes de l'Invention del Crois & le Epiphanie.
- (1387) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.118 : [Salmon ought (?not) to be taken between the feast of the Nativity of our Lady (8 Sept.) and the feast of St. Martin (11 Nov.) because at this time it was] kiper, [out of season and of no value].
b
- (1326) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9915 : Month 3, week 3, In 11 Kypres emp., 3 s. 4 d.
- (1333-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9919 : In j salmone, playces, et lopsters, et iij kyppres salsis, iij s. viij d.
- (1333-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9927 : In xxiiijor trut' kypr. emp., ix s. x d.
- (1340) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9936,37 : Week 4, In 7 kypres emp., 21 d..Month 2, week 4, In 6 kypres emp. et 1 salmone salso, 2 s. 2 d.