Middle English Dictionary Entry
mō̆rtẹ̄̆r n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | mō̆rtẹ̄̆r n.(2) Also mortēr, mortere, mortar(e, mortier, mortour. |
| Etymology | OF mortier plaster & L mortārium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Mortar, cement; plaster; also fig.; (b) ~ erthe, soil used in place of lime in preparing mortar; ~ maker.
Associated quotations
a
- a1300(c1250) Floris (Vit D.3)230 : Þat morter is imaked so wel, Ne may hit breke ire ne stel.
- c1300 SLeg.Fran.(1) (LdMisc 108)125 : Þo he ne miȝhte non oþur do þe churche for-to arere, he..sore swonk and bar morter þar-to.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)2715 : Þe enchantors sede þat me..mid þe blod bi sprengde wel hor ston & hor morter & it ssolde stonde þenne anon.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)515 : Ichil a castel han ywrouȝt Of wode and lime, morter, and ston.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)116/28 : Þet is ase þet guode mortyer [Vices & V.(2): syment; F cimens] huer-of me makeþ þe guode walles sarzineys þet me ne may naȝt breke, ne mid pic, ne mid mongenel.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)459 : Et puis feteez la plauncie And sithen make the floore De boorde ou plastre bien pauye Of boorde other morter planyd.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)61.3 : Ȝe al sle þe in-nocent liggand to hym as to a wal þat þe morter [is] putt out.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5524 : Apon þer neckes sal þai bere Hott wit stan and wit morter.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)2881 : He..wilde-fyre þere-on sette, Þat brent doune..Tymber, ston, and þe morter.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)6.144 : Ȝe myȝte..helpe make morter or bere mukke a-felde.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)19.321 : Of his baptesme & blode..He made a maner morter..And þere-with grace bigan to make a good foundement.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.661 : Þei putten in stede of morter In þe Ioynturys copur gilt ful clere To make hem Ioyne by leuel & by lyne.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Gen.11.3 : Thei hadden tiel for stonus and pitche for morter [WB(1): syment; L cæmento].
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)Eph.2.14 : For he is oure pees..in þe mene wal..with oute morter vndoande þe enemytese in his flesch.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4177 : The temperure of the morter Was maad of lycour wonder der; Of quykke lym, persant and egre, The which was tempred with vynegre.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)189 : Of eche c of morter, iiij d.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)344 : Mortere [Win: Mortare], for wallys makynge: Cementum. Morter, for playsterynge: Litura.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1367 : And ther vpon the growndes a rysyng to be made with large substanciall fre stone of Teynton wt hethston and flynt y leyd and couched with good and myghtty morter made with fyne stone lyme and gravell sonde vnto the clere wall.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)7978 : Ȝyf he were taken & slayn sone, & menged his blod wyþ morter [F mortier] & stone, Vpon þat morter þat blod wer inne, Þat werk men mygh[t] safly bygynne.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)104b : Þat side of þe wal..loke hit be enhaunced or made hyher wiþ stoon & morter or wiþ brend tyle or with erthen walle.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)2592 : Thow comandedest me to sle..and my blood al forto take and þer-with thy morteer for to make.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)5967,5970 : Fadyr and sone, eme and broþir Made morter and layde ston..Euery kyng and emperere Stones bare or mortere [vr. mortour].
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)114 : In þis same place was sumtyme diggid mech sond to make her morter in rome.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)586/28 : Gipsum: cley or morter.
- c1453(c1437) Brut-1436 (Hrl 53)579/28 : Þe Duyke lete ordeyn xx shippis out of Flaundres, wherof vj old shippes were lade with hard ston, chalke, and brekes masont in hem with morter, to droune hem in þe haven of Caleis, þat no shippis shuld come þer-in.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4937 : And if my executours thynkke that brykke be not sufficient to endure, lete it be maad with calyon and moorter.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)23504 : The morter Was not..stably among the stoones layd.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)23524 : This was whilom..of their morter the temprure, founded vppon charyte, on concord and fraternyte.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Add 9066)346 : Ionathas..hired masons, that thei shold enhaunse his Chambre with morter and stone.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)27 : He..comaunded hem to make a tour..and..to brynge ston and morter [F mortier].
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)731/8 : Litura: a mortare.
b
- (1359) Reg.Edw.Blk.Pr.3/362 : [He will nominate and choose all the workmen he needs..]bayardours, mortermakeres, [and] wyndres [of stones].
- (1367) in Salzman Building in Engl.152 : [For digging earth for] mortarherthe [for the said lodge].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1400 Harv.lat.235 Artist.Recipes (Harv lat.235) 295/23 : Er þu stop þi fat put in wod aschis temperid with water as thikke as mortor.
Note: Additional quot., sense (a). New spelling (mortor).