Middle English Dictionary Entry
pīper(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pīper(e n. Also pipar(e & (in surname) pipre. |
| Etymology | OE |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who plays the pipes, a piper, bagpiper; ~ wif, female piper; poverte of piperes, a band of pipers; (b) as adj.:?suitable for making pipes: (c) in surnames [some of these may be piper n.].
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)539/23 : Tibicen: pipare.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.207 : Pictagoras hiȝte pipers [vr. pypars] to pipe a song i-made by þe enditynge of spondeus.
- c1390 Body & S.(5) (Vrn)p.70 : Wher be..Þis pipers, þat þis bagges blewen?
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52112/14 : Et eisdem pipers et thrumpours pro vj sackes de fostyon..lx s.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)8a/b : Auledus: a pipere.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)401 : Pypare: Fistulator.
- a1450 Terms Assoc.(1) (Rwl D.328)604 : A Melodi of harpers; a pouerte of pypers.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1234 : Ther saugh I famous, olde and yonge, Pipers of the Duche tonge, To lerne love-daunces, sprynges, Reyes, and these straunge thynges.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)134/5 : We shall goo in daunsyng with tyboures and with pypers.
- a1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)12591 : Thanne be-gynnyth nowe playe An hundrid mynstrelles..Pypers, sarsynners, and symbaleris.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)96a : A piper: Aules, Auledus, fistulator, sambucinator, tibicen, tibicina.
- a1500 Degrev.(Cmb Ff.1.6)1585 : Þe pypere [Thrn: mynstralle] haldus hys pays..(Mynstralus shuld be cortays).
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)693/8 : Hec fistilatrix: a piper wyfe.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)696/31 : Hic fistilator: a piper.
b
- c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)178 : The piler elm, the cofre unto carayne; The boxtre pipere [vrr. piper, pypar; pype] holm to whippes lashe; The saylynge fyr; the cipresse, deth to playne.
c
- (1202) CRR(2) 2121 : Robertus le Pipere.
- (1213) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms184 : Ric. le Piper'.
- (1246) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms185 : Simon le Piper.
- (1255) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms184 : Will. Pyper.
- (1270) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms184 : Joh. Pipre.
- (1279) Hundred R.Tower 2753 : Henr' le Pipere.
- (1287) Pleas Crown in BGAS 22160 : Simon Pipereman.
- (1296) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms184 : Will. Pypar.
- (1304-5) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.305 : Johanne Pipere.
- (1311) Doc.Oxf.in OHS 73157 : Agnes le Pyper.
- (1327) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms184 : Radulphus Piper.
- (1340) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms184 : Nic. le Pypare.
- (1355) R.Arms Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.14299 : Adam Piper.
- (1393) Doc.Thaxted in Ess.ROP 3343 : John Pipere.
- (1423) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)273 : Thomas Pypere.