Middle English Dictionary Entry
nok(ke n.
Entry Info
| Forms | nok(ke n. |
| Etymology | Cp. MDu. nocke & LG nokke. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The tip of a bow, spindle, etc., often made of horn; the notch of an arrow; ~ streng, ?a bowstring; (b) ~ line, part of the rigging of a ship.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)273a/b : Of oxe hornes ben y-made tippynge and nokkes to bowes, to alblastres & arowes.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)357 : Nokke of a bowe or a spyndylle or other lyke: Tenorculus, clavicula.
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)380 : Of the Sheep is cast a-way no thyng; His horn for nokkis, to haftis goth the bon.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)612/5 : Simicosus: Nockestrange.
b
- (1420-1) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 280 : Et in..iiij Cordis paruis pro Clapslynes, Noklynes, Rolynes et vletlynes.