Middle English Dictionary Entry
rok(ke n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | rok(ke n.(2) Also roke, rock(e, roc, rocche. |
| Etymology | MDu. rocke, roc; also cp. ON: cp. OI rokkr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A distaff; (b) ~ mone-dai, error for rop-mone-dai, s.v. rop n.(1) 4.(b).
Associated quotations
a
- a1325(?a1300) Interl.CG (Add 23986)70 : Wit my roc y me fede; Cani do non oyir dede.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)429 : De un conoil [glossed:] rocche [vrr. rock, roke; a distaf a rocke] vous purveez; Mes le fusil ia ne ubliez E le virul ki a ceo suffit.
- c1350 Of alle þe witti (Add 45896)63 : I mot care for cartus, for cloutes and crokkes, Coules and cimmilyncs, cracchus and cribbus, Ropes and Relus, Rakus and Rocckus.
- ?c1350 Bozon Contes in SATF (GrI 12)117 : Leve in yi rokke ne is no thef, Take oyer mannez wulle is hire to lef.
- a1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)128/22 : His moder susteined hym wiþ her rok for sche span þat tyme.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.7519 : Parchas broken han þe þred On þe rokke, and he was forþe his way.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.6967 : I noon excepte of þe false route, Satorn nor Pallas..Nor ȝe þat spynne þe lives þrede fatal Vp-on þe rokke of euery maner man.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)129/30 : Women cam rennyng owt of her howsys wyth her rokkys.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)290/32 : He made his doghters to be clothe-makers & for to lere at spyn on þe rokk.
- c1450 De CMulieribus (Add 10304)628 : Pallas..First toosyde the woll from all superfluous thynge, Kempt it after and to the rokk didd it brynge And with hir fyngers twyned out a threde.
- c1450 Ryl.Prov.& R.(Ryl Lat 394)94 : Good day, my rokke ys sponne.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.33 : Sardanapallus..was founde..drawenge purpulle of a rocke.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)105b : A Roke or a distafe: Colus.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)128/389 : I haue tow on my rok more then euer I had.
- ?a1500(a1475) Wright's CW (Lamb 306)503 : The proctoure began to knocke; The good wyfe rawte hym a rocke, For therto hadde sche nede.
- c1500(1342) The fals fox (Cmb Ee.1.12)20 : The good-wyfe came out in her smok, And at the fox she threw hir rok.
b
- (1468) *Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls Bundle 45, no.4v [OD col.] : Curia generalis cum leta ibidem tenta die lune vocata Rokemunday secundo Maii anno r. r. Edwardi quarti octavo.