Middle English Dictionary Entry
ōken adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | ōken adj. Also (in place names) okene-, ockene-, hokene-, okn-, aken-, akane-, ake-, achene-, eche-, eken-, heken-, egen-. |
| Etymology | OE ǣcen adj. & ME ōk(e . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Made of, or consisting of, oak wood; oaken; (b) of, or pertaining to, an oak tree: ~ boughes; ~ leves, oak leaves; also, an oak leaf design; ~ wode, an oak grove or forest; (c) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.2].
Associated quotations
a
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52157/31 : Et per manus Baron..pro xiij oken sparrez, iiij s. x d.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)276a/a : Democritus seith þat his heed and his þrote..ysette on fuyre wiþ okene [L quercinis] woode, maketh boþe rayn and þonder.
- (a1399) Oath Bk.Colchester9 : Okene bord for j c fet, j d., and if it be sold be the lode withowtyn metyng, paien iiij d.
- a1425 KAlex.(LinI 150)5139 : Þe face of heom is playn and hard, Alse hit weore an oken [Ld: okes] bord.
- (1432) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)211 : Item, pur lombe et dawbersz Naylles, straw, et okyn borde: xiij s. ij d. ob.
- (1433) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.3393 : Item, lego Renfrido filio meo unum chiphum deauratum vocatum Okyn coppe.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.932 : Yet for the mous, kest oken askis so Aboute her hole, in hit that thei may trede.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57497 : My master rekened wyth Thomas Cobdok, and he axsethe fore iij c of oken bord for every hundred xxviij d.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)235a/b : Apples growiþ on þe leues as galles groweþ on oken leues.
- (1415) Will in Bdf.HRS 224 : Item, ij chalons, reed and plonket; þe red wt okyn leues þeryn, þe plonket wt rede rose þeryn.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)4.303 : Anothir crowne..Of oken bowes was maad.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2722 : In ȝone oken wode, an oste are arrayede.
c
- (1195) EPNSoc.3 (Bedf.& Hnt.)121 : Ekendon.
- (1242) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)37 : Hekenhey.
- (1246) EPNSoc.32 (West Riding Yks.)17 : Akescahe.
- (1254) EPNSoc.32 (West Riding Yks.)17 : Akanescale.
- (1261-2) in Wallenberg PNKent275 : de Hokenefaud.
- (1270) in Wallenberg PNKent275 : De Ockenefeld.
- (1296) Name in LuSE 3550 : de Echewike.
- (1304) EPNSoc.3 (Bedf.& Hnt.)121 : Egynton.
- (1304) in Wallenberg PNKent275 : De Okynuolde.
- (1312) EPNSoc.11 (Sur.)324 : Echenewode.
- (1318) Deed Norris in LCRS 93177 : Le Okenebonk.
- (1327) Name in LuSE 3518 : Del Okenbothum.
- (1332) in Mawer PNNhb.& Dur.3 : Akenside.
- (1362-98) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)37 : Okney.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.188 : [2 woods called] Okynfald [and] Kenysacre.
- (1411) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)37 : Egeney.
- (1464) EPNSoc.32 (West Riding Yks.)17 : Okenshagh.