Middle English Dictionary Entry
pī(e n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | pī(e n.(2) Also pei. |
| Etymology | ML pica, pia. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A baked dish of pastry filled with meat, spices, etc.; (b) ~ bakere (makere), a pie-baker; pie-bakeres-shop; ~ man, a baker or seller of pies; ~ hous, a place where pies are made or sold.
Associated quotations
a
- (1303) *Bolton Compotus [OD col.]lf.68b : Frumentum expenditum..in pyis et pastellis.
- (1357-8) Acc.Bk.Oxf.in EHR 24739 : Item, in pies xx d.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.384 : He koude rooste and sethe and broille and frye, Maken mortreux and wel bake a pye.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.83 : Make a Coffyn as to a pye.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)prol.104 : Cookis & here knaues crieþ, 'hote pyes, hote.'
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)7a/b : Artocrea:..panis artificiosus componitus, or a pie.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)662/26 : Artocria: a pie.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)395 : Pye, pasty: Artocrea, pastillulus.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)53 : Pyez de parez: Take & smyte fayre buttys of Porke..caste þer-to ȝolkys of Eyroun..make fayre past and cofynnys, & do þer-on, kyuer it, & let bake.
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)31/904 : For pouerte abeggyng muste he crepe..for krost off peyes.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)76 : Grete pyes.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)61 : She stert in-to the town & fet a py al hote.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.51 : For a pye..lay þy capon in coffyn fyne..with safroune..And raysyns..Close on þy lyd..And bake hym.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)95a : A pye: Artocria.
b
- (1199) CRR(1) 1302 : Henricus Piehus.
- (1301) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 2187 : Rogero Pyman.
- (1320) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms199 : Petr. Piebakere.
- (1332) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms199 : Matild. Piebakere.
- (1332) Sub.R.Lond.in Unwin Finance92 : Adam le Piemakere.
- (1338) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms199 : Thom. le Pybakere.
- (1357) Cart.St.John in OHS 69107 : Petronilla Pyemaker.
- (1363) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.314 : [Of Andrew the] Pyebakere.
- (1363-4) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)13 : Andrea Pyebaker.
- (1379) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.432 : [That no poulterer, cook] piebakere..[shall go to meet victuals coming towards the City].
- (1379) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)2.209 : [Andrew Smyth], pyebaker.
- (1387) *Mun.B.Bridgewater54 (2) : Duabus artibus, viz. arte carnificis et piemakere.
- (1407) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)2.373 : [To Thomas Skelton..reversion of a] Pyebakersshop.
- (1428-9) Rec.St.Mary at Hill70 : Also payd to more, tymberman, for tymbre for gretynges hous & for þe piebakers hous.
- (1429-30) Rec.St.Mary at Hill73 : For ij tylers in þe pybakers hous.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)395 : Pye baker: Cereagius.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Semblable (Ashm 59)105 : Þe pyebaker leteþe heos pyes blode.
- a1500 Gloss Dict.Garland (Hrl 1002)127 : Pastillarii [glossed:] pye-makyers.
- a1500 Let.Bk.Lond.D (Gldh LetBk D)201 : Ye shal wete no Brewer ne Brewster, Hukster, cook, ne pibaker with in your Warde that sillith owt of here hows a galon of the beste ale.