Middle English Dictionary Entry
saut n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | saut n.(2) Also saute, sauȝt; pl. saut. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A leap, jump; -- also in the name of a place; (b) maken a ~ over, to make a crossing of the sea; (c) fig. a fall, downfall; (d) at first ~, at once; (e) a state of sexual arousal; ben a (in) ~, to be in heat; (f) as a term of association for badgers: a bevy.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)125/105 : Scho daunced and tumbild diuers saut Ful faire and wele, with-outen faut.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)110.503 (v.2:p.179) : Thre fair wellys .. sprinigen [?read: springen] vp at the thre sawtys or skippis which Seynt Poulis hede made whan it was smett of.
- c1475(a1400) Brut-1333 (Dc 323)11/17 : Coryn..nome þo Gogmagog betwene his Armes & cast hym doun vpon a roche, so þat Gogmagog brak al to peces..& þerfore þe place is called ȝit in-to þis day 'þe sawte of Gogmagog'.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.40 : Whiche place hight yet Gogmagoges sawte, By cause he leped their frome Corneus.
b
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306)72 : The Erle off Warwyke..made a sawte over with a godely fellaweshippe and londed at Sandwyche, and toke the Lorde Reveres and his sonne.
c
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.B.2114 : Ther he died thoroghe Diues defaute; Allas for petie, was it not a routhefull saute!
d
- c1300 SLeg.Inf.Chr.(LdMisc 108)1464 : Þo seide þe Maister þus, ate furst sauȝt..'Ribaut þe hardiesse, hou cam it þe þus forto Aposi me?'
e
- a1425 *York MGame [OD col.] (Bod 546)viii.38 : The fyxene of þe wolf is a sawt ones yn þe ȝeer.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)51b : Hit will take a-way..the luste of a body..If þou wilt preue hit, yf hit to a beste that is in saute.
f
- c1450 Terms Assoc.(2) (Cmb Ll.1.18)232 : A sawte of greyes & a farewyng.
- a1500 Terms Assoc.(4) (Dgb 196)232 : A sawte of grayes.