Middle English Dictionary Entry
rein n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | rein n.(2) Also rēne, rain(e & (in place name) raing. |
| Etymology | ON: cp. OI rein, ODan. rēn. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A strip of land forming a boundary; also, a strip of land marked out as lists; (b) a furrow; (c) a barrier, an embankment; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2. 82].
Associated quotations
a
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.159 : Sette not out thi londis faat or lene To hym whos lond adioyneth on thy rene [L confinia].
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)9549 : Two fayre Reynes [vr. Renges] ordeyned haue he, Where-in these lordys shuld turneye.
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)9564 : After cometh Gaudyn and Partanope In-to the Reynes [vr. Renges] rydyng avysely.
b
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.62 : Se not the swerd al nakid..Nor hungry cley, ner stonys ful vche rene [rime: vnclene, lene].
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)32/478 : Therfore of cornes fayre and cleane that growes one ridges out of reane, Cayne, thou shalt offer, as I meane, to God in majestee.
c
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)607/46 : Retinaculum: a Rayne.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)607/46 : [Dict.: Reticulum: a rayle] vel a rayne.
d
- (1268) EPNSoc.17 (Not.)116 : Reynwath.
- (1278) EPNSoc.17 (Not.)116 : Water of Raynwath.
- (1280) EPNSoc.17 (Not.)116 : Water of Rayngwath.
- (c1500) EPNSoc.17 (Not.)116 : Reinwarth Forthe.