Middle English Dictionary Entry
ongle n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ongle n. |
| Etymology | OF ongle fingernail. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
In phrase: seuen the ~, to pay on the nail, pay in full [mistransl. of F sur le ongle].
Associated quotations
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)107 : Ȝif on merchaunt selle his merchaundise to an other merchaunt for to payen at short day or fresshly to suyn the ongle [ID(1): sur le vngle]..ȝif the plee rise be twixe the same personys..be not that merchaunt, to whom the merchaundise was so seld, receyved in pletyng in the same court to defendyn by his lawe, til he owe to the merchaunt pleyntyff no peny of the forseid merchaundise to hym seld.