Middle English Dictionary Entry
scantilǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scantilǒun n. Also scantilone, -eloun, -elone, schauntellun, scantlon & scantilioun, skantillȝon, scantlioun & skanclion, scanklione, skanklion. |
| Etymology | OF eschantillon, escantillon, AF escauntiloun & eschanteillon, eschantillon. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A measuring rule used by a carpenter or mason; also person.; square and ~; (b) measurement; a measurement; (c) a stick cut to the measure of a deer's trace; taken ~, to cut a stick to the measure of the trace, measure the trace; (d) a piece of cloth retained as a specimen; (e) ?a pattern for the carving of an architectural ornament.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)325 : Ber wiþ þe squire & schauntellun [vrr. scantiloun, scantlon], Also þu were a gud mascun.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2231 : I rede we bigin a laboure And do we wel and make a toure Wit suire and scantilon [Trin-C: scanteloun; Frf: rewle] sa euen.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)8775 : Þe king did cast wit scantliun, And did mak al þe timber bun.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)8808 : Son þe tre was heun dun And squir on-laid and scantliun [Frf: scantilioun; Göt: scantlyoun].
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)7064 : Do maken vp a tour of hight..Wrought with squyre and scantilone [rime: stone].
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)287 : Mete, or mesure, or scantlyon [Hrl 221: scantylyon]: Amona et non annona.
- c1500 The shype ax (Ashm 61)107 : 'Soft, ser,' seyd the skantyllȝon, 'I trow ȝour thryft be wele ny done.'
b
- (1437) in Salzman Building in Engl.509 : The same Richard and John haue take upon hem and undertake..to kepe the Scantelons of the water werke of the same Mille in forme as hit folewith, [etc.].
- (1437) in Salzman Building in Engl.509 : The scantelon of the same nedilles shall be a fote thikke and xv enches of Brede and planked on either side and rabattid halfe in halfe of ij enche thikke.
- (1438) in Salzman Building in Engl.511 : Too chambrys..with dubble stage geteyyd acordynge to the scantelonys of the newe chambris of the Lyon be the strete.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)442 : Scantlyon, or scanklyone [Win: skanklyon]..mensura.
- (1452) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1282 : Item, iij sengulere Principalls in werkyng, in inbowyng, and in Scantlyon accordyng to the Principalls.
c
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)7 : Aftir whan he shall come to þe semble or gaderyng and he shal report byfore þe lord and his company eiþere þat he haþ seye with his eynen or by þe scantilonn [Dgb: scantillioun] of the trace þe which him oweþ algate of ryght for to take.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)84 : Þane shuld the lymmer go thidere as þe hert ȝede inne, and take þe scantelone of þe trace þe which he shuld kitt of his roddes eende and lay it in þe talon of þe trace..so þat þe scantelon vnneþes touche at neiþer ende And þat doon he shuld..kitte anoþer scantelon þer aftir to take to þe huntere, þat he may take it to þe lord or to þe mayster of þe game at the metyng þat som men calle essemble.
d
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57492 : Item, the xxx day of Marche, my master bout of Berthelmew Syates a short goune, clothe of cremysen velvet..And the said Berthelmew hathe it to kepe, and my master hathe sealed it at bothe endes, and take a scantylone of eche of them, and my master owyth hym therfore.
e
- (1427-9) in Salzman Building in Engl.22 : [Purchase of parchment] pro skanclyon.