Middle English Dictionary Entry
possenet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | possenet n. Also posenet, poscenet, poshenet, pocenet, pocinet & posnet, postenet, -enest, -net, posdenet & (error) procenet. |
| Etymology | OF; cp. CF pochonet, poçonet, possonet, pocenet; AF posnet, postnet. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A cooking pot; vessel, pan; (b) potel ~, ~ of a potel, a pot which holds a half-gallon; ~ of a quart, a pot which holds a quart.
Associated quotations
a
- (1279) Acc.Middleton in Archaeol.Cant.10324 : j poscenett.
- (1310) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.292 : In coquina..iiij poscenetes.
- (c1312) Will Durham in Sur.Soc.218 : j pocenet et patella, ij s.
- (c1312) Will Durham in Sur.Soc.219 : j patella, j posenet, et j craticula, ij s.
- (1326) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99114 : j Postenest pro Hostillario.
- (1333) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2921 : In coquina..ij postenetts.
- c1350 Of alle þe witti (Add 45896)72 : I mot haue muche more wat þen a dishe, a pypin and a posnet.
- (1380) Will York in Sur.Soc.4110 : Unum possenett cum stert.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Par.35.13 : Pesible hostis þei seþedyn in posnetis [WB(2): pannes; L lebetibus] & cawdrones & pottis.
- (1393) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.212 : [2] pocenetts.
- (1394) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.32 : Posdenet, [dishes], bacyns, [and other household articles].
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.23 : Take galyntyne and grece and do in a possynet.
- (1411) Will in Bk.Lond.E.216/17 : Y be-queþe to Johon Wyot..a postnet þat y lent hym.
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)48 : Item..a litil procenet.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)432 : Take galentyne and the grees of the gees and do hit in a postenet.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)13/24 : When it es wele welled, halde thi mouthe ouer þe posenett & stewe þe wele.
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.137v : By a while cam ther ffletyng vp the water as hit were a pocynet [William of Malmesbury: urceolus] voyde and cam anothur full of watur.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)233/17 : For þe gowte. Take an howle and choppe her small, and þut [read: put] hyr in a posshenet of erthe.
- (1454) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.142 : [A pot and a] possenet, [14 d.].
- (1459-60) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9989 : Item, iij possenettez et iij chawfers.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.10 : Welle alle togedur in a posnet.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)1.426 : Take the mawe, the lyver, and guttes and chopp hem smalle and put hem in a possnet.
b
- (1419) *Will Bury155 : I be qweþe Will Basse..a lytyl basyn..& a potel possenet.
- (1420) EEWills46/16 : Also ij pankyns & a posnet of a potell, also a posnet of a potell, and a posnet of a quarte.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. posnet.