Middle English Dictionary Entry
scot-nail n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scot-nail n. Also schot(e)nail, shot-, (errors) schotnaye, schortnayll; pl. scotnails, etc. & scothnale, schotnail(e, -nal, shottenail. |
| Etymology | From MDu. schot, scot partition, MLG schot interstice or paneling & ME nail n.; cp. MDu. schotspiker. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A kind of nail; -- also coll.
Associated quotations
- (1296) Newcastle Galley in Archaeol.Ael.4.2168 : cc Schotnayl precium c ij d.
- (1296) Newcastle Galley in Archaeol.Ael.4.2178 : In ccclx Schotnayl, lx Thacnayl, cc Tyngel.
- (c1320) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100514 : Marescalcia: In 24 Carcloutis cum clavis pro eisdem; 160 Schotnayle.
- (1338) Doc.Hatfield in Sur.Soc.32202 : In spykings ferri, lednaylls, schotnaylls..empt. pro aula cooperienda.
- (a1340) Doc.Coldingham in Sur.Soc.12p.xiii : In ccc scothnale, ij s.
- (1340-41) Name in LuSE 3546 : Bordenaill & Schotenaill.
- (1349-50) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100550 : Spykyng et Scotnayls pro fonte.
- (a1362) Cellarer R.in Nrf.Archaeol.7163 : In clavis, viz., dornayl, schotnaye, et splentnayl circa domos.
- (1366-7) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.lxxii : Pro..leydnaill, stanbrod, schortnayll, spiking.
- (1368-9) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2950 : iiij c schotnall, iiij c brodnaill.
- (1370-71) Invent.Monk-Wear.in Sur.Soc.29166 : cc shottenayl.
- (1378) Doc.Manor in MP 3455 : Shotnayl.
- (1449-50) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99239 : 200 ma. del shotnaill.
- (1453-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99149 : ij wayneclowtez cum spikyng et shotnayll.