Middle English Dictionary Entry
roteling ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | roteling ger. Also rotling, rottilling, rutteling. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A rattling sound in the throat; (b) an uproar, a disturbance.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)22 : The bolk about whan þei goo to Rutte not as þe hert doþ bute moche lowere þan þe herte and Ruttelyng [F gargatant] in the þrote.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)92 : Þe oþer belowyn with a ryght mosel bifore hem in bolkyng and rotelyng wiþin þe þrote, and also þat is tokyn of a gret hert and an old.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)9/15 : A goud letuarie a-ȝen alle yuellis: for þe rotelyng in þe þrote, for boillis, for sorys in þe side.
b
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)277 : Þan was rotlyng [vr. rutlynge] in Rome, robbyng of brynnyes.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)943 : Alexander..Sees slike a rottillyng [Dub: rastelyng] in þe rewme & ridis al þe faster.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. rottling.