Middle English Dictionary Entry
lōm n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lōm n. Also lome & (early, N, & cpds.) lam(e & lomb(e. |
| Etymology | OE lām |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Clay; clay used for daubing walls, etc.; also, potters' clay; potteres ~; ~ of erthe, a clay vessel; (b) moistened clay; (c) clay as the substance of which God made the body of man; (d) the ground as a place of burial; (e) ~ pit, a pit where clay is dug; (f) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 26.13].
Associated quotations
a
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)17.46 : Y shal don hem o-way as lome [L lutum] of þe stretes.
- (a1395) Acc.Savoy in Archaeol.24314 : Per iiij carectatis terre vocate loome pro factura & emendacione parietum & murorum.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)2.9 : In yherde irened salt þou stere þa, Als lome ofe erthe [L vas figuli] breke þam als-swa.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.155/471 : For v lodes of lombe to þe dawbynge yn þe same Almesse hous.
- (1426-7) Rec.St.Mary at Hill66 : For ij lode lomb for teringe of þe chambre.
- (1440) Acc.Bk.Carpenter Co.5 : For v lode lome.
- (1442) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1387 : For cariage of xxxj lodes of lome..to dawpe howsing ther with.
- (1460-65) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31396 : Payde to dyuers dawbers and laborers, for lombe & sonde & for thayre hyre.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57323 : For iiij lode lome to the said tenauntry.
- (1488) Doc.Middx.in MELDv2017.1/D4154#15 [Acc.All Saints, fol. 23v] : Jtm paied for a lode of lombe for the Chyrche housse.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)45b : Take head therfore to potters lome, And make thow never to nesh thy wombe. That lome beholde how it temperid is.
b
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)58/31,32 : Þa spætte he on þa eorðan, & makede of ðam spattle & of ðare eorðe lam, & smirede mid þam lame ofer þæs blindan eaȝen.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)11985 : And o lame o þaa lakes selue Wit handes made he sparus tuelue.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13568 : Iesus..smerd wit lam [Frf: clay] min eien tua.
c
- a1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)221 : God þa ȝeworhte ænne man of lame and him on bleow gast and hine ȝeliffeste.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)53/575 : Þu makedest mon of lame, & ȝeue him liuiende ȝast ilich to þe seoluen.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)991 : Ȝe! ne makede he mon of lam to his ilicnesse?
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)6/52 : Swa þet ha naueð nawt free of hire seoluen, & trukien, for a mon of lam, þe heouenliche lauerd.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)36/624 : Hwet wule he don bi þet lam, & wurmene mete, þe of þe deofel temeð hire in eawbruche on eorðe?
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Gosp.(Phys-E)p.1 : Of erþe and lam thou made manne.
- c1440 When adam delf (Thrn)5 : Of erthe and lame, as was Adam..We er, als he, maked to be.
d
- c1330 Þe siker soþe (Auch)48 : Our lickham is layd In a graue, þat is grayd Vnder lame lawe.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)193 : Þar sal ȝe find..O lazar ded laid under lam.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)421/5 : In lame is it loken all my light..Jesus of Nazareth he hight.
e
- (?c1173) Doc.in Vinogradoff Villainage457 : De ista praedicta acra..jacet roda una ad lomputtes.
- (1309) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)1.207 : [His whole term] del Lompettes [to be sold by his executors].
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)103/134 : Þou proud erþe of lompet, Ine felþe þou schelt lygge.
f
- (1221) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)444 : Lammersch.
- (1258) in Wallenberg PNKent105 : Ric. le Lomere de Mepham.
- (1315) in Sundby Dial.Wor.172 : Rob. atte Lamsete..Will. atte Lome.
- (1332) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames116 : Will. atte Lamputte.
- (1383) EPNSoc.15 (Hrt.)229 : Lampetfeld.
- (1391) EPNSoc.15 (Hrt.)229 : Lampytte.