Middle English Dictionary Entry
molet n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | molet n.(1) Also melet, mil(l)et, millot, milvet, mulet. |
| Etymology | OF mulet 'red mullet' & ML mulettus, moletus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The mullet, any fish of the families Mullidae and Mugilidae; esp. the red mullet (Mullus barbatus).
Associated quotations
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52213/1 : Pro moletts, xxxviij s. Et pro schrympes, xliiij s.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)342 : Molet, fysche: Mullus.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)104 : Take a Millet and scale him.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)574 : Breme, chevyn, base, melet, in her kervynge..splat þem in þe dische liynge.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)735 : Mylet or trowt.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)841 : Breme, soles, & molett.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)5 : Molet, samon, sooles.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)6 : Milvet poudred, lampry poudred, pik boiled.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)141 : The secunde cours..bremme, congur, solys with myllott.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)705/21 : Nomina piscium..Hic mulus: a mulett.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)765/9 : Hic molanus: a melet.