Middle English Dictionary Entry
-bakked ppl. adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | -bakked ppl. adj. |
| Etymology | From bak n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Having a back (of a specified kind); crok ~, hunchbacked; etc.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)147a/a : The gnatte..is ful noyeful to scabbid hors and sore backed.
- a1425 Horse(4) (Glb E.9)p.xxv : The horss well mouthid, well-wyndyd, streght bakked and rownd-foted.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.279 : Edmond..the comeliest prince aliue, Not croke backed ne in no wyse disfigured.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1466) Stonor1.87 : Y sende yow þe writte white backed…As for þe ‘vendicioni exponas’, ye seye þat ye have paid þe money; þer for y sende yowe the writte white.
Note: ed.gl. 'white or white-backed, of a writ: not endorsed'; i.e., '-bakked' in this case represents the dorso of a letter, as opposed to the back of a person or animal.