Middle English Dictionary Entry
pelter n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pelter n. Also peleter, peltier, pelleter & (surn.) peletrer. |
| Etymology | From pelt n. & OF peletier. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A skinner or furrier, a dealer in pelts; grom ~, a servant of the royal household in charge of furs; (b) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- (1318) Feet Fines Kent in Archaeol.Cant.14245 : Robert Ylger, Pelter.
- (1332) Sub.R.Lond.in Unwin Finance66 : Willelmus de Douegate, Peleter.
- (1332) Sub.R.Lond.in Unwin Finance88 : Willelmus de Wallyngford, Pelter.
- (c1360) R.Arms Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.14308 : Johannes Gamage, Pelter.
- (1364) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.5 : [Richard Palmer], pelter.
- (1365) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.25 : [Robert de Eye], pelleter.
- (1365) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.31 : [Stephen Daubeneye and Thomas de Leuesham], pelters.
- (1373) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.150 : [Thomas Leuesham], pelter, [was committed to prison for drawing and brandishing his knife].
- (1377) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.243 : [Schedule of the names of persons in fifty-one misteries, viz.: mercers, grocers, drapers], orfeverez, pessoners, vynters, pelleters, [etc.].
- 1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.29 : In ye yer of oure lord jhesu cryst a thousande thre hundred seuenty and sexe, Peltyers and oyere god men be-gunne yis gylde and yis bretherhod of seynt Willyam.
- (1390) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.12531 : Inter Robertum de Waghen, wright, ex una parte, et Johannem de Duffeld, pelter..et Robertum de Malton, littester..ex parte altera.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)78a/a : And if hym nedeþ suture..be þay swed with suture of pelterz, i. skynnerez [L pellipariorum].
- (1432) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)142 : [Peter Andrew], pelter.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)385/14 : The lond of hardyng, peletere..is bitwene the lond of Stephyn hanton and the lond of Walter Westbury.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)41 : Gromes of Chambyr..Another of these groomes is called..groome surgeon, another groome pelter.
b
- (1248) in Fransson Surn.126 : Adam le Peleter.
- (1250) in Fransson Surn.126 : Sim. le peletter.
- (1255) in Fransson Surn.125 : Ad. le Peleter.
- (1263) Close R.Hen.III260 : Ricardus le Pelter.
- (1272) Feet Fines Sus.in Sus.RS 785 : Mathm. le Peleter et Felic. ux' ejus.
- (1281) Hundred R.Tower 2646 : Robertus Pelter.
- (1281) in Fransson Surn.125 : Will. le Pelter.
- (1284) Let.Bk.Lond.A (Gldh LetBk A)86 : Arnald Peliter, [merchant of] Tolouse.
- (1296) in Fransson Surn.125 : Ad' le Peletur.
- (1310) Let.Bk.Lond.B (Gldh LetBk B)250 : Roger le Peletrer.
- (1327) in Fransson Surn.126 : Warinus Pelter.
- (1332) in Fransson Surn.126 : Edm. le Pelter.