nab and nabbe - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Dictionary Entry

nab(be n.

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Entry Info

Forms	nab(be n. Also nob.
Etymology	ON; cp. OI nabbi.

Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.

(a) A projecting peak, knoll; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.48].

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a

c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5494 : He stekis þam vp with þar stoures in a straite lawe..And ane ser naþy onone he in þe nabb speris.

b

(1180-4) in Ekwall PNLan.212 : [Gars]chownab.
(1247) EPNSoc.10 (Nhp.)241 : Nabbe.
(c1250) EPNSoc.14 (East Riding Yks.& York)327 : Barettnab.
(1315) EPNSoc.17 (Not.)288 : Stenenenabbe.
(1324) in Kristensson ME Top.Terms37 : Petr. del Nab.
(c1346) in Kristensson ME Top.Terms37 : Will. del Nabbes.
(c1400) EPNSoc.10 (Nhp.)241 : Le Nab.
(c1400) EPNSoc.10 (Nhp.)241 : The Nobbs.