Middle English Dictionary Entry
ax-trẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ax-trẹ̄ n. Also ex-, ȝex-. |
| Etymology | Cp. ax(e 2. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The bar to which the wheels of a cart, wagon, chariot, etc., are attached; an axletree; casting of ~, the sport of throwing an axletree, pitching the bar; (b) the pin or spindle on which a wheel or the like turns, an axle; (c) ~ clout, a plate or shield fixed on the axletree to prevent excessive wear; ~ pin, a nail or pin for holding a wheel on an axle.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)100 : Parmi le char gist le escel: axtre.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ecclus.33.5 : The entrailes of a fool as the whel of a carre, and as a turnende ful axtre [WB(2): extre] the thenkingus of hym.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)18 : De soub le chart gist le essel..Vnder þe carte lyþ þe ȝex tre.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.628 : Phebus char lowe gan declyne His golden axtre.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)334 : Wyth-ynne chyrche & seyntwary..Castynge of axtre & eke of ston, Sofere hem þere to vse non.
- a1500 Hrl.1002 Gloss.(Hrl 1002)628 : Axis: extre.
b
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)51/549 : Stod þe axtreo i straht o twa half in to stanene postles.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)105b/b : Heuen meoueþ fro þe est to west, and fro þe west..to þe est..liche as a whiele meoueþ aboute þe axstre.
- c1400 *Chaucer Astr.(Brussels 4869)1.14.79b : Thanne is there a large pyn in maner of an extre, that goth thurgh the hole that halt the tables of the clymates.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)3 Kings 7.30 : And foure whelis bi eche feet, and brasen axtrees [WB(2): extrees; L axes].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)145 : Exultre or ex tre.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.14.2 : Than is there a large pyn in manere of an extre, that goth thorugh the hole that halt the tables of the clymates and the riet in the wombe of the moder.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)12233 : Ther ys..A-nother [wheel]..Hath iiij spookys yt to sustene, Set vp-on an Extre large.
c
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Arun 220)167 : Deuz hietes: the ax-tre pinnes..lour joigneres: the axe-tre cloutes.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.166 : [18] axtres [worth 3 s. 4 d.].
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