pikerel - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Dictionary Entry

pikerel n.

Forms	pikerel n. Also pikerelle, pikrelle, pekerel; pl. pikerelles, etc. & pikerel.
Etymology	From pī̆k(e n.(2).

(a) A young pike; (b) in proverbs; (c) as surname.

(1290) R.Familiae in Archaeol.15352 : Pro 1 pikerel, xviij d.
(1298) Reg.Halton in Cant.Yk.S.12167 : Nous vous mandoms que levvesque de Cardoill suffrez prendre seyssante pikerels en nostre lay.
(1338) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9935 : In quatuor pykerells empt., 9 d.
(1390-91) Leet R.Norwich in Seld.Soc.570 : Dictus Johannes Atteker et Thomas depredaverunt pisces rescentes, videlicet, perches, roches, et pikerelles.
(1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52215/18 : Item, pro pikerell et tench.
(1401-2) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103604 : In 24 pikerell empt. pro instauro stagni de Pittyngton.
a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)641/25 : Hic lucellus: pyckerylle.
?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)446 : Take eles..and pykerelles also therwith.
(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)397 : Pykerel: Dentriculus, lucillus.
(1447) Shillingford9 : Y..[sende] thider that day ij stately pikerellis and ij stately tenchis.
(1462) Acc.Howard in RC 57562 : Item, the same day my master put in the said pond in smale pekerelles, xx.
a1475 Herkyn to my tale (Brog 2.1)p.85 : Ther was..The pekerel and the perche, the mennous and the roche..the flondyre and the loche.
?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)95a : A pykerell: lucillus, luciolus, dentriculus.

(c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1419 : Old fissh and yong flessh wolde I haue feyn. Bet is..a pyk than a pykerel [vrr. pykrelle, pikerele], And bet than old boef is the tendre veel.
c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)14628 : For he is hol In flesch & fel And as hole as any pykerel.