Middle English Dictionary Entry
porren v.
Entry Info
| Forms | porren v. |
| Etymology | MDu. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To thrust or push (sb.); (b) to pack or stuff (a crack, cleft).
Associated quotations
a
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5560 : Þai sett in a sadd sowme & sailid his kniȝtis, Porris doun of his princes & persys þar schildis.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)249b/b : Men in olde tyme clepid it Stypa, as it were, stoppynge or porrynge, ffor þer wiþ chynnes and cliftes of schippes ben porred and y-stopped.