Middle English Dictionary Entry
poket n.
Entry Info
| Forms | poket n. Also pokett(e, poketh, pocket. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. CF pochet. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A bag, pouch, small sack; med. a cloth bag containing medicaments to be applied externally; pope ~, Pope Moneybag; ~ of the testicles, the scrotum; (b) one of the divisions of a sack tied round with a rope, or otherwise constricted; (c) a hanging sleeve; (d) a hunting net in the shape of a pouch; (e) ?as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (a1377) RParl.2.385a : xx sacz & ix peres de Leyne trovez en xxiii sarplers & en 1 poket. ]
- (1350) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.262 : [Also, in the Chapel there, in a] pokete, [2500 of] wyndounail.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.808 : Poudres diuerse, asshes, donge, pisse, and cley, Cered poketz, sal peter, vitriole, and dyuers fyres maad of wode and cole.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)162b/b : Þe lilyes schal be put in a poket bi hem selfe, and at þe ende of þe moneþ þei schullen be taken awei.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)53/1 : Tak þat tartar and hyng it in some place in a lynnen sacce or pokette.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)189 : Of every last of wulle that comyth to oon merchaunt alone, viij d..And ȝif that it be lasse, be takyn of every sak iiij d.; and of every poket [ID(1): pokete], iiij d.
- (1438) *Proc.Chanc.PRO ser.C 1 file 9no.289 : Thomas Byrcham, yoman, and Robt. Glideford..the house of your saide besecher..entred and ij ffocers and a poket opyn full of dedes and munimentz..toke and bare away.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)407 : Pooke: Sacculus..Poket, idem quod pook.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)29/38 : Tak hauyr..& strenkill it wele in þe parchynge..& do it in a pokett, & lay it als hate to whare þu felis þe gryndyng als þu may suffre it.
- a1450 Chauliac(4) (Cai 336/725)25/11 : Apostyme of þe poket [L burse] of þe testiclis..is callyd comynly hernies or ramyces.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)203/8 : Sur, I latt þe witt þer is in þatt pokett iijc li.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)20/13 : Take camamell Dried and make powder off hitt, and..put..in a longe narow pockett..þt it may go abowt hys hede.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)296/61 : Take a porcioun of whete-bren And..rose-flowris..And menge hem to-gedere..And in a poketh þou it do..And ley it on þe hed.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)144 : Lo master, lo, here ys a pardon belymett; Yt ys grawntyde of Pope Pokett; Yf ȝe wyll putt yowr nose in hys wyffys sockett, ȝe xall haue forty days of pardon.
- a1500 Henley Husb.(Sln 686)50 : Take heede to þem þat þey haue no pocketes nor grete purses, where as þey myght stelle & bere away your corne.
b
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)45a/b : The ynnere part of þis cod is of þe substaunce of Siphac, to whom þei ben in similitude, rizt as two pokettis of a sak sumdel y-drawen togideris by hem silf; and þei diuersiþ not fro þe Ciphac but þat bitwene hem is maad a litil constriccioun.
c
- c1450 How mankinde dooþ (Lamb 853)130 : 'Apparaile þe propirli,' quod Pride, 'Loke þi pockettis passe þe lengist gise.'
d
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)14 : Men sle hares wiþ greyhoundes and with rennyng houndes by strengthe, as in Engelond, but ellis where þei slee hem Also with smale pocketes and with pursuetes and with smale nettis wiþ hare pipes.
e
- (1210) CRR(2) 688 : Adam Poket.
- (1248) Close R.Hen.III38 : Robert Poket.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.79rb (2.13) : Sumtyme þe aposteme hongeþ & cleueþ wiþoute on the bak of the lyuer as a pokete, and somtyme it hongeþ and cleueþ wiþin þe lippetes of þe lyuer.
Note: Additional quot.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. pocket.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. pocket of the testicles.