Middle English Dictionary Entry
rūet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | rūet n. Also ruwet, reuet, riuet, rouet. |
| Etymology | OF röet, rouet, AF ruet. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A wind instrument, possibly a small curved horn, blown in the hunt or in battle; also fig.; (b) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- [ ?a1300 Gloss.Neckam (Tit D.20)104 : Consonent tibie, tube, litui, buxus [glossed: estives, busins, ruez, flegoles]. ]
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1637 : He..sett a ruet to his mouþe..Alle..abouten hym comen flyngyng.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)3695 : Al þis ysauȝ Tholomewe -- A litel ruet [LinI: ruwet] a-loude he blewe. Gregeys..Tholomew drowen aboute.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)5.190 : Glotoun..pisside a potel..And bleuȝ þe rounde ryuet [vrr. reuet, rewet, rowet; C: rywett] at þe riggebones ende.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)72 : Ther byn diuers maners of hornes, þat is to say, vngles, grete abotes, huntes hornes, Ruettis, smale forsters hornes, and mene hornes of ii maners.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)38a/b : Littuus: a ruet.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)5987 : Ector bar a litel ruet, Vnto his mouth his horn he set, Twyes or thries ther-In he blew..his men..come to him.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)106a : A Rwet: littuus, i. paruum cornu est.
b
- (1366) List Names in LCRS 31.2110 : Ricardus Shakerewet.