Middle English Dictionary Entry
pultrīe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pultrīe n. Also pultrẹ̄, poultrẹ̄, & pulletrie, pulteri(e, (error) purtrye. |
| Etymology | OF poleterie, poulleterie, pouletrie, polletrie & ML pultria, pulleteria, pulteria. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Poultry, domestic fowls; (b) a place where poultry is sold; -- as the name of a market and street in London; market of ~, this market; ~ market, the poultry market in Bury St.Edmund's; (c) a department in a great household dealing with poultry and other provisions; (d) a hen house, poultry yard.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1372-3) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.lxxxv : De xv s. vj d. receptis de minutis rebus..ut de pulletria. ]
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.9 : Salomon his mete was..ten fat oxen and an hondred weþeres wiþ oute venisoun, pultrie, and wylde foul.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.598 : His lordes sheep..His swyn, his hors, his stoor, and his pultrye [vrr. pulletrie, pultre] Was hoolly in this reues gouernynge.
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.56 : No pulter ne schal bygge..pultrye [vr. purtrye; F puletrie] for to a-ȝen selle er þat vndren be y-ronge.
- (1401) Let.in Ellis Orig.Let.ser.2.116 : Everych hous is full aboute ous of her pultre.
- (?a1417) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120223 : It ys the custume of thys cite that pultre, wyldefoule, and other vytayll..be salde in thys maner.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)606/5 : Pultria: pultrie.
b
- (1345-6) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)124 : The Wardeynes..haue fully determyned..That who so euer be Wardeyns..suffren..noon othir Brothirhodes nor Feleshepes to ocupye owre Halle..Excepte the Brothirhod of Seynt Myldred in the Pultry.
- (1422) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.126/144 : John Stok and Margaret his wife, Regratours and forstallers of þe Market of Pulterye.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.149/279 : John Mabile, atte Rede Cok yn the pultrie.
- (1437) Will Bury in Camd.498 : In vico vocatur the Pultery market.
- (a1444) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.1.p.x1 : Richard Crewe and Nicholas Vicarye, sergeaunts..brought theym to the Counter in the Poultre of London.
- (1444) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)289 : Grevous hurt..cometh to..people comyng and passyng by the pultrie of this Citee.
- c1450(c1353) Winner & W.(Add 31042)490 : Then passe to þe Pultrie, þe peple þe knowes, And ken wele þi katour to knawen þi fode.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)115 : Thenne was the Lorde stronge a-restyde and brought unto the Counter in the Pultrye.
c
- [ (1377) *Issue Roll (PRO) E 403/460 m.ll [OD col.] : Willelmo Bartone garcioni Pulletrie hospicii Regis. ]
- [ (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5215/2 : Super officio pulletrie per manus eiusdem pro lacte, butiro, et ouis per ipsum emptis ibidem, vij d. ob. ]
- [ (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52208/4 : Super officio poletrie..pro putura pullorum, 1 s. ]
- (1454) Proc.Privy C.6.231 : Thoffice of the pulterie.
d
- (1429) Doc.Rowney in Mun.Magd.Oxf.16 : Item, j bakhous..cum aliis parvis domibus ibidem pro yetynghous et pultrie.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)416 : Pultrye [Win: Pultre]: Gallinaria.