Middle English Dictionary Entry
knēding(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | knēding(e ger. Also knedding, knetinge. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act of kneading; working dough, etc., with the hands; (b) ~ fat, ~ tubbe, a tub or vessel used for kneading; ~ trough, a trough or tub used for kneading; (c) crushing or softening with the hands.
Associated quotations
a
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)279 : Knedynge: Pistura.
- a1500 PParv.(KC 8)47 : Brayn, vide in knedying.
b
- (1339-40) Sacrist R.Ely 292 : j knedyngtrow circumligando.
- (1388) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)5.82 : [A] knedyngtrow, [a] boltyngtonne, [and a] moldyngbord, [worth 2 s.].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3548 : Go gete vs faste into this in A knedyng trogh or ellis a kemelyn For ech of vs.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3564 : Whan thou hast for hire and thee and me Ygeten vs thise knedyng [vr. knetynge] tubbes [vr. trowȝis] thre.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3594 : Tomorwe at nyght when men been alle aslepe Into oure knedyng tubbes wol we crepe.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3620 : He..gooth and geteth hym a knedyng trogh, And after a tubbe and a kymelyn.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.97 : [A] knedyng trogh [worth 2 s.].
- (1408) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2981 : In pistrina, j bultyngtrow, j knedyngtrow.
- (1411) in Rec.B.Nottingham 286 : [j] knedyngtrow.
- (c1425) Stonor1.43 : In le Bakhous..ij knedyng trowes, j muldyngbord.
- (1433) in Rec.B.Nottingham 2140 : Knedyngtroghes.
- (1446) Doc.Coldingham in Sur.Soc.12p.lxxxiv : In pistrino..iiij kneddyngtobys..ij kneddyngtrowys.
- (1446) Invent.Lytham in Chet.n.s.6079 : j grete knedyngtrogh, j scrapyng yryn.
- (1449) Will York in Sur.Soc.45112 : De j magno knedyng troghe.
- (1451) in Mun.Magd.Oxf.[OD col.] : Pistrina..ij knedyngtrowes.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30172 : A knedyng trought.
- (1464) Will Kent in Archaeol.Cant.11380 : My wyff shalnot take awey oute of my mesuage the querne nor the knedyng trowe in no wyse.
- (1465) Paston (Gairdner)4.202 : Item..ij knedyng satys [read: fatys], a moldyng bord.
- (1472-3) RParl.6.38a : Item, ii knedyng Fates.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)70a : A Knedynge trowe [Monson: trothe]: magis, pinsa.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)247b/a : Þe þridde..may be..made rowȝ with handelyng and knedynge in honde [L manibus malaxari potest].