Note: A supposed example from Medulla has been removed from this word, since the quotation, when correctly transcribed, and when considered alongside its MS parallels, appears both more cryptic and less likely to belong to this word. MED had read a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10) 43b/a thus: "Nautiuitus: barke of shype" but the correct reading seems to be "Nautiviter est nautiuiter barke of shype" (cp. Lin-C 88 'Nauti ye vttrest bark of ye ship'; Lin-C 111 'Nauti: anglice, vtterest bark of a shyp'; StJ-C C.22: Nautim: the vtterest part off a shyp.). The entire complex seems to have originated as an error for a gloss on 'nauci' (i.e. 'nutshell'; see bark n., sense 4.(a)), with 'shyp' introduced as a consequence of mistaking nauci for nauti, and the string 'viterest' or 'viter est' originallyl an error for 'vtterest' ("outermost"). In its present corrupt state, it is difficult to say what 'nauti' should be taken to mean, or (therefore) what 'barke' means in this context. 'Outer hull, cladding,' perhaps, i.e., an extension of bark n., sense 4.