Middle English Dictionary Entry
bedding ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | bedding ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Furnishings or equipment for a bed; bedclothes; anything used in preparing a bed; (b) a bed; also, lodgings.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)547 : Stramentum: bedding.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ps.6.7 : With my teres my bedding [WB(2): bedstre; L stratum] I shal watrin.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)3429 : Ȝyf þou delyte þe yn ryche beddyng [OF en lit richement aturne].
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)853 : Burnez innoȝe, þat broȝt hym to a bryȝt boure, þer beddyng watz noble, Of cortynes of clene sylk..And couertorez ful curious.
- (1420) EEWills48/6 : I bequeth to v poure men þat neden Beddyng..to euery off heme i couerlete, i wytele, & i chete.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)2 Kings 17.28 : Sobi..and Berzellai..brouȝten to hym beddyngis [vr. beddyng; WB(1): couerynge clothis; L stratoria] and tapitis.
- (1426) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)418 : Y bequethe all my beddyng, lynyn and wollyn..to John Broughton.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)234/23 : Þer myth þei getyn no beddyng but a lityl strawe.
- (c1440) *Pet.Chanc.PRO ser.CP 1 file 12no.202 : Hys godys & hys catell, that ys to say, bestal, houshold beddyng, & other dyuers nescesaryes.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)673 : Gold, siluer, iewel, cloþ, beddyng, array, Ne haue I non.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4923 : I yeve here..the clothes of myn that longe to ye bedde that she hath loyen in, and the beddyng in the draugh chambyr.
- (1472) Paston5.131 : I beseche yow..thatt I maye have agayn my stuffe, my bookes and vestments, and my beddyng.
b
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1616 : This nyght wol I brynge..clothes for thy beddynge.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.459 : We woneþ in drie diches..and þe erþe fyndeþ us beddyng [L lectum; Higd.(2): the erthe is oure bedde].
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)14.231 : Þouȝ his glotonye be to gode ale, he goth to cold beddynge.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.2128 : Romeyn knihtis, which wer falle in age..Sholde of custum haue ther herbergage..In that cite..Beddyng, clothes, spendyng & vitaille.
- c1450(?c1400) 3 KCol.(1) (Cmb Ee.4.32)40/5 : Thei had also all maner necessaries þat longed to beddyng or to chaunbre and to kechyn.
- a1450 Out of þe blosme (Sln 2593)14 : A powre beddyng our lord hym ches; betwyin an ox & an as godes sone born he was.
- (1463) Acc.Howard in RC 57225 : He schalle have every weke xij d., and mete and drynke and beddynge.
- a1500 This louely lady (BodPoet e.1)107 : Why art thou layd in stall? Why ne thou ordende thi beddyng in sum gret kynges hall?
2.
The space in which a building stone is to be laid, bed of mortar.
Associated quotations
- (1401) in Parker Gloss.Archit.171 : Et erit le beddyng cujuslibet achiler ponendi in isto opere longitudinis unius pedis de assyse..cum latitudine competenti.