Middle English Dictionary Entry
potāǧer n.
Entry Info
| Forms | potāǧer n. Also poteger, pottiger & potinger, potenger, podenger. |
| Etymology | From potāǧe n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A dish from which pottage or stew is eaten, porringer.
Associated quotations
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)47 : Item, ij chargeours, vj potagers, xiiij gret platers.
- (1443) MSS Middleton in HMC111 : ii pottygerz of sylver.
- (1454) *Invent.Gild Stratford (ShakMuseum 184, 187)184 : xiij dosen potyngers & vij peces.
- (1463-4) Reg.Chanc.Oxf.in OHS 94129 : Item, ii podengerys with a sawcer, iii d.
- (1466-7) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.51135 : j poteger, iiij savceris stanni.
- (1470) Paston (EETS)1.418 : Syr John..solde to the forsayd Sthephen xvj potengers..for xl li. of laufull money of Englond.
- (1476) *Acc.R.Abbotsbury : Theft of potegors.