Middle English Dictionary Entry
mǒue n.(3)
Entry Info
| Forms | mǒue n.(3) Also mou, moghe, mugh(e, mug & (in place name) muhe, muwe, meue; pl. moues, moghes & (early) muȝen, mowen. |
| Etymology | OE mūga, mūha, mūwa. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A heap or stack of hay, grain, etc.; ~ of corn (sheves), moues of benes (pese), etc.; hei ~ [see hei n. 2. (a)]; ~ ithreshe, ?labor service requiring the threshing of grain; ~ stathel, the lower part of a stack of hay, grain, etc.; (b) ?in place name [see Smith PNElem. 2.44].
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)29280 : Þa sparwen..i þan eouesen..grupen, swa heo duden in þen muȝen.
- (1235-52) Cust.Glastonbury in Som.RS 582 : Et debet triturare mughythress', scilicet, j summam frumenti et habere stramen.
- (1235-52) Cust.Glastonbury in Som.RS 5140 : Et debet habere mugstathel et unum sedlep plenum de frumento die Sancti Martini et aliud de avena in Quadragesima.
- ?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)357 : Bernes ful riche & mowen ful heye, Muche was þe blisse after here swinke.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Arun 220)p.154 : Une moye: a mowe.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6760 : Thorn feld or corn or mou [Trin-C: mowe] or stak.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)30 : Qar vn mow est dit en grange, Et vn tasse de hors la grange, ffor a mowe ys seyd in graunge, And a tas wt oute grange.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5590 : And in his berne hath..An hundred mowis [F muis] of whete greyn.
- (1446) Invent.Lytham in Chet.n.s.6081 : A hutte of whete vnthrossyn in the wheteberne, also iij moghes of benesse & pese be estimacion in diuers bernes.
- a1450(a1400) Medit.Pass.(2) (Add 11307)113 : Holy Writ..likneþ þi wombe to a mowe of corn, ffro bred of luf þer-of was born.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4434 : Þan as a Mare at a moghe ȝoure mawis ȝe fill.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)571/13 : Cassa: a mowe.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)615/31 : Tassis: a mowe.
- c1450 WBible(2) (Bod 277)Ruth 3.7 : Mowe of scheues [Roy: Booz..hadde go to slepe bisidis the heep of handfuls].
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)83a : A Mughe: archonius.
b
- (1232) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)51 : La Muwe.
- (1284) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)51 : Lamuhe.
- (1316) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)51 : La Mewe.