Middle English Dictionary Entry
mouer(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | mouer(e n.(1) Also mouwer, mowhere, (N) mauer, (in names, chiefly N & NM) mauer(e, mauwer. |
| Etymology | From mouen v.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who mows grass, reaps grain, etc.; (b) in surnames; med ~, mower of meadows.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)396 : Li faucheour [glossed:] the mouwer [vr. mower] littere fauche.
- -?-(1352) Reg.Freemen York in Sur.Soc.9645 : Johannes Coilliour, mower.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)32 : Le faultour littere littere fauche..Þe mowere straw moweþ.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)345 : Moware wythe a sythe: Falcator, metellus.
- (1444) RParl.5.112b : Hervest labour, in which the wages of a Mower excede not by the day iiii d..A..Reper or Carter, iii d. by the day.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)78 : Art thou a repere or a mowere [F fauchonneur]?
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)582/37 : Feniseca: a mowere.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)587/47 : Herbiseca: a mowere.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.53/10 : In tyme of heying..to þe mower, viij d.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)10421 : Thou semyst..A repman..Or A mowhere wyth thy sythe.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)78a : A Mawer: falcarius.
- a1500 Henley Husb.(Sln 686)50 : Se welle þt your mowere hold not his ryght honde afore to hyghe.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)687/12 : Hic fulcator: a mawer.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)811/6 : Hic falcator: a mower.
b
- (1225) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms38 : Joh. le Mawere.
- (1309) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms38 : Jord. le Mauwer.
- (1313) Sub.R.Bristol(1) in BGAS 19235 : Johannes le Moware.
- (1327) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms38 : Will. le Medmowere.
- (1333) Sub.R.Stf.in WSAS 10114 : Willelmus le Mower.
- (c1346) Name in LuSE 3528 : Le Mawer.