Middle English Dictionary Entry
nailing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | nailing(e ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Nailing, the driving of nails; ~ hamer, a hammer used for driving nails.
Associated quotations
- c1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)467 : Spere & spounge and sharp nayling Þorw þe harde hat þe heued shal kerue.
- (1421) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3546 : Thomae Horner de Petergate pro hornyng et naillyng superscriptorum librorum.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)151 : Fast, or festyd be clevynge to, or naylynge: Fixus, confixus.
- (?c1450) R.St.Edmund in Archaeol.42404 : Wallyng, thekyng, dawlyng, nalyng.
- (1465) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.ccxcix : Domus fabri..j hand hamer, j nalynghamer, j par pynsors.