Middle English Dictionary Entry
quarrer(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | quarrer(e n. Also quarer(e, quarier & (error) quarter. |
| Etymology | AF quarrer(e, CF carriere, quariere & ML quar(r)era. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A quarry; ~ ston, a stone from a quarry; (b) a mine; gold ~; (c) in surnames & place names [see Smith PNElem.2.77].
Associated quotations
a
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2232 : Þei saie a litel hem bi-side a semliche quarrere vnder an heiȝ hel al holwe newe diked.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2271 : He hade seye in þe harde quarrer þe tvo white beris.
- (1381) Doc.in Morsbach Origurk.5 : Jtem, a gret howe for þe quarer.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Par.34.11 : Þei ȝifen it to þe craftis men & to masowns þat þei shulden bien hewyn stones of þe quareris [WB(2): delues ether quarreris; L lapicidinis].
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.17 : Þe erþe of that lond is copious..of quarers of marbel of dyuers manere, stones of reed, of whyte; of nesche, of hard; of chalk and of whyte lyme.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)14.259/57 : Fer fro þe Abbey was a quarere.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)194b/b : Some ben clene with oute soule..and alle þing þat groweþ vndir grounde and is ygendrede in veynes of þe erthe, as quarrer stones [L lapides], colours, and metalle.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)202b/b : Othere kyndes of marbil brediþ in quareres and in rokkes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)204a/a : Also stones beþ ferst y-take oute of þe quarer [L de minera] and þanne beþ y-hewe, planed, and y-squared.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)4 Kings 22.6 : That trees and stoonus of quarieris [L de lapicidinis] be bouȝt to reparele the temple of the Lord.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)419 : Quarere of stone: Lapidicina, saxifragium, lapifodina.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)335/10 : Quarter [read: quarrer; L lapideam] of þe lorshipe, of þe fore-seide londe nihe towarde þe northe, in lengeþe & in brede euin as þei helde hit, to be holde & to be had, [etc.].
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)162a/a : The erthe conteyneþ for ornament with ynne quarers ore and alle þat groweþ vndir grounde, as stones and metal and oþer suche.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)204a/b : Also in golde quareres [L aurifodinis] with matiere of gold beþ smale stones y-founde.
c
- (1166) in Kökeritz PNWight44 : Quarere.
- (1215) in Kökeritz PNWight44 : Quarrer.
- (1252) in Kökeritz PNWight44 : La quarere.
- (1279) Hundred R.Tower 2706 : Henr' de la Quarrere.
- (1312) Cust.Battle Abbey in Camd.n.s.41137 : Gilberti atte Quarere.
- (1332) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 10274 : Willo atte Quarere.
- (1410) in Kökeritz PNWight44 : Quarrer.