Middle English Dictionary Entry
plater n.
Entry Info
| Forms | plater n. Also platter. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. CF plat n. & AL platera n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A platter, charger; plate, dish; also fig.; ~ molde, a mold for casting pewter platters.
Associated quotations
- [ ?a1400 Bozon (Hrl 1288)33 : Quant persone de cent livres de rente ad quilly deux platers du relef a sa table pur envoyer a deus poveres. ]
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)818 : Þulke here Þat arecheþ wiþ me his hond in þe platere, He me wole sulle & take.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)2260 : Alder next his side he sat And of his dische and plater at.
- (1348) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.3 : They make vessel, that is to saie, pottes, salers, dysshes, platers, and othir thinges.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.116 : Boyle it wel and do the sole in a plater and the bruet above.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.23.25 : Woo to ȝou..ipocritis, that maken clene that thing of the cuppe and plater [L paropsidis] that is with outforth.
- c1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)163 : I was þat cheef chargeour; I bar flesch for folkes feste..On me lay þe lomb of loue; I was plater, his bodi a-boue.
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52206/30 : Super officio scutellarie..pro discis, platers, salsariis.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)638 : Mete messez of mylke he merkkez bytwene, Syþen potage and polment in plater honest.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)93 : Þei..shuld..sette diuers metis vpon a grete plater after þe lordis pouere.
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)47 : Item, ij chargeours, vj potagers, xiiij gret platers, and xxx disships, all marked with C.
- a1425(?a1350) 7 Sages(2) (Glb E.9)2038 : Onnence hir lord sho gan hir set Þat þai might of a platere ett.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)72/9 : The platere þat the hed was leyd in whan it was smyten of is at Gene.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)166a/b : Oþerwise, forsoþ, it [oil] is more liȝtly wasshen in a basyn in a scutelle, i. platir [Ch.(2): disshe; L scutella], or in a pot.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)432 : Dresse thi gees in platers and poure the sauce above and serve hit forthe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)403 : Platere: Parapsis, rotundale, scutella, patina.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)182 : Pacokes and plouers in platers of golde.
- (1446-7) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9984 : In discis et platers ligneis parvis empt. erga festum Sci. Cuthberti.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)247/9 : Þe pullett was on þe platir.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)64/159 : Thus shall thow preve itt: drop a dropp upon a cold platyr, and anone it will be hard.
- (1451) Lin.DDoc.43/35 : All my Syluer wessell -- xxvj platers -- that I am serued withall dayly..I wol that it be smytten in koyne.
- (c1451) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.15 : Item, j c plater molde, iiij part ys, xvj d.
- (1452) Will York in Sur.Soc.45136 : Et in coquina..xxvj platers de pewter.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4923 : I wille that Jenette, my nece, haue..a doseyn plateris.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57317 : My mastyr bout of Beche of Colchestre a garnyshe of counterfet vessellys, that is to sey, xij platers, xij dyshes, and xij sawsers.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.50 : Geder hit on a cake..With platere of tre.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. platter.