Middle English Dictionary Entry
sẹ̄lde n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | sẹ̄lde n.(1) Also (early) selt, (early infl.) selden & (in place names) -seild, (errors) -felde, -telde. |
| Etymology | OE seld; for sense (b) also cp. AL selda (from OE). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A seat; a position of authority; (b) a shop; a ground-floor room; a booth, stall; (c) in surnames and place names.
Associated quotations
a
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)93 : Ða apostoli siððan..isetten iacob, þet wes ihaten rihtwis, on cristes selt, and alle þeo ileafulle laðunge him ihersummede efter godes tecunge.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)12970 : Þa six swin he gon æten alle ær he arise of selde [Otho: of sete].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)15385 : Bitwxen twam wi[n]dewen þat maiden iwarð an selden.
b
- [ (1243-4) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 78262 : Ego, Dionisia Buruwold..dedi..totum illud mesuagium..exceptis duabus seldis sub solariis uersus magnum vicum existentibus. ]
- [ (1291-2) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 78258 : Ego, Iohannes Sewy..concessi..Hugoni Sewy filio meo et Emme uxori eius duas seldas cum pertinenciis que site sunt in parochia sancti Michaelis. ]
- [ (1407) *Maldon (Essex) Liber A [OD col.]lf.14b : Pro parcella terre de communi super quam finis unius seude in le draperie est edificatus. ]
- (1439) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)227 : [Thenceforth tanners bringing leather to the City for sale shall bring it] to þe selde which is ordeynyd þerfore.
- (1440) in Black Leathersellers25 : Hit is ordeyned..that alle maner rough felles and tawed..be brought plenerly to the Selde whiche is ordeyned therfor.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)98/23-5 : ij seldis in the markat of wycombe, with the pertynentis, the which lyen bitwene the seldis that Robert Croudene helde and the selde that Robert Buth held.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)414/5 : Hugh hore..yaf..one selde, with a stalle afore and a Celere vndir.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)495/19 : William fitz Gerard and henry fitz Geffrey of Brakley yaf & cetera to Geffrey Turton a selde of vij elnys and half and iiij Inchis in lengthe, and v elnys and a quarter and ij Inchis in brede, I-sette vndir a soler that was somtyme of henry Griffyn.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)508/23-4 : The forsaid abbesse and Couente..toke, graunted, and lete..one selde, with a solar ouer the same selde I-bilde and [over] a selde of the prioresse of Nunne Eton.
c
- (1275) in Sundby Dial.Wor.214 : Warselde.
- (1294-5) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)1.118 : John atte Selde.
- (1327) in Sundby Dial.Wor.214 : Warsfelde.
- (1327) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 10110 : Johanne atte Selde.
- (1340) in Sundby Dial.Wor.214 : Wartelde.
- (1384) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)4.156 : [The tenement called] le Seelde.
- (1405) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)7.162 : [A messuage called] le Tanners Selde.
- (1421) in Sundby Dial.Wor.214 : Warseyld.