Middle English Dictionary Entry
pichen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | pichen v. Also piche, picche, pic, pik(e, pikke(n; p.ppl. i)piched, i)picched, picced, pikked, picked. |
| Etymology | OE pician |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To cover (sth.) with pitch, coat, seal; (b) to anoint (sb.) with pitch.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (Hrl 2277:Horst.)97 : Hi leten hem diȝte a gret schip..wiþ bole-huden..ynailed þerto..& siþþe ipiched al aboue þat þe water necome.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)707 : Hise ship he greyþede wel inow; He dede it tere an ful wel pike, Þat it ne doutede sond ne krike.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)241a/b : Oon hatte schippe picche, for schippes beþ y-pycched [L liniuntur] þer with..to kepe þat water schal nouȝt come in to þe schip.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)331a/a : Fiscella is a litel..panyer yweue wiþ smale ȝerdes..and y-glewed ouþer y-picched [L pice circulinitum].
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5615 : An esscen kyst sco did be wroght, Did pik [Göt: pic; Trin-C: piche] it sua..Þat thoru moght na water win.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.787 : Hem [pears] do In sum vessel ypicchid [L picato] wel, vpwarde The bottom.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.795 : Let take an erthon potte & putte hem [pears] in, And picche hit fast, & cley hit wel oloft.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.809 : His peris wol he trie; Then inte a picced potte he wol hem glene.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.667 : Al hoot into a stene Let hem [figs] be pressed, picchid, and ywrie.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)77/19 : He garte make a lyttill bate..& gerte pykk it wele bathe wit-in & wit-owtten.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4208 : He..Bad make him..a barge all of redis..pickid & taloghid.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)219/27 : Do þer-on occirecrosiun, as þou woldyst make a pychyd cloth.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.117 : The Dedde see..susteynethe not eny schippe, but if hit be welle pycchede [Trev.: glewed; L bituminatam].
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.451 : Alexander..made theym to be inclusede more streytely, stoppenge theire entre with hilles picchede [Trev.: wiþ stones and glew; L molibus bituminatis].
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)278 : To Pykke: ligonizare, bituminare.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)278 : Pykked: bituminatus.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)116b/b : In hem þat..flieþ to be piched [L piceari] or piceate..frote þe bodie vnto it come to rednez.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)397 : Pykkyn, or a-noyntyn wythe pyk: Piceo.