Middle English Dictionary Entry
kit(te n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | kit(te n.(1) |
| Etymology | MDu. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A wooden tub or bucket; milk ~, a bucket or pail for milking; (b) fig. belly; (c) ~ wright, a maker of such tubs or buckets.
Associated quotations
a
- (1362) Invent.Monk-Wear.in Sur.Soc.29159 : In bracina..ij collokes et j kytt pro vaccis mulgendis.
- (1408) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99223 : In cova sunt 2 ciste..3 kyttes, 1 candelabrum fixum in poste.
- (1411) in Rec.B.Nottingham 284 : [Item] j kyt, ij d.
- (1416-7) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2991 : In lardario..vj fattis, ij kyttis, j barell.
- (1446) Invent.Lytham in Chet.n.s.6079 : [In the Pantry] j kyt for paryngbred.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30172 : A grete kyte.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30173 : A mylke kytt.
- (1469-70) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9993 : Pro 3 bollys, 2 kittez, et 3 Chesfattes.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)696/14 : Hoc multrum: a kytt.
b
- a1500(a1450) St.Robt.Knares.(Eg 3143)163 : Langir lyked hym noght that lyffe Bott als a wreche wentt to hys wyffe, Als a hounde þat kastes out of hys kytte And ay turnes and takys eft hys vomytte.
c
- (1275) in Fransson Surn.170 : Ric. le Kittewritt.
- (1344) *in Pilkington Surn.21 : Rogerus Kytwryght.