Middle English Dictionary Entry
sengle n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sengle n. Also sengul, singul. |
| Etymology | OF cengle, sengle & L cingulum, AL singulum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A supporting strap or band; also, a girth, surcingle.
Associated quotations
- [ (1316) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9911 : In reparac. sell. et singulorum del Baghors et del Fischehors. ]
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5234/19 : Super officio garderobe..pro j pare sengles corei de Hungaria cum plustula pro trussura predictorum arcuum, xviij d.
- (1454) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.146 : [Eleven] standardes [without] sengles.
- a1486 Jousts of Peace (Mrg M 775)40 : iij dowbyll Gyrthis with dowbill bokollus, and a dowbill sengull [vr. singull] with dowbill bokullus.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1450 Poem Hawking (Yale 163)52 : Now here paryys wyll y discryve…The pons, the sussengelys…The sengelys, sourials, and talons.
- ?a1450 Poem Hawking (Yale 163)543 : Loke furst or thei be geuen to flye Þu cepe her beke lyke to a henne, Ther talons, pons, sengles, souryalles ful hy To be copyd.
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)leaf a viij/a : Bott certaynly the Clees that are uppon the medyll strecheris ye shall call the loong sengles…And the vttermest Clees ye shall call the Pety, Sengles…Understond ye also that the longe Senclees be calde the key of the fote, or the Closer, For what thyng som euer it be þat yowre hawke strenyth, open that Sengle, and all the fote is open. For the strength ther of fortyfieth all the fote.
Note: New sense (b)
Note: REL notes: "Tilander seems pretty convincing to me [article as yet unidentified], and sencheres probably means 'singles'. (See senchere n.) Dur-Cro Bk.Hawking 28/113 supports him for ceinture n. But best to put a note in etymology saying that sense (b) could be derived from sengle adj. 1.(a)--this is where both Tobler-Lommatzch. and AF Dict. would put it."
Note: Cp. sussengeles n. pl.