Middle English Dictionary Entry
medler n.
Entry Info
| Forms | medler n. Also med(d)eler, meddeller, middiller. |
| Etymology | OF medler, var. of meslier. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The medlar tree (Mespilus germanica); (b) the fruit of the tree, a medlar.
Associated quotations
a
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)tab. 247,248,249 : Middillers [vr. Meddelers], to sette in Marche..Middillers, to remedie for auntis & castynge fruyt..Middillers, to graffre and to kepe.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.1041 : The medlar [vr. meddeler; L mespilus] to graffe ek tol[d] is how.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.493 : Now meddellers in hoot lond gladdest be, So hit be moyst.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)12.312 : The serue and medler & selyque tre.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)149/20 : Take a feyr schoyt of blake thorne, crabtre, medeler, or geneper.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)596/5 : Mespila: a medeler.
b
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1375 : Many homly trees ther were That peches, coynes, and apples beere, Medlers, plowmes, [etc.].