Middle English Dictionary Entry
seuer n.
Entry Info
| Forms | seuer n. Also suer(e & (in surname) suor & (error) sere. |
| Etymology | AF sewer (cp. OF esseveur & sewiere floodgate) & AL sewera, seuera, suera. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A trench or ditch used for drainage; ~ gate, a floodgate on a sewer; (b) commissioun of seueres, authority or duty to oversee drainage canals; justices of seueres, ?officials who regulated the drainage of marshlands; (c) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1322) Abbrev.Plac.Edw.II339 : Ad inquirendum de defectibus in reparacione murorum maritimorum, gutturarum, sewerorum. ]
- (1279) Assize R.Nhb.in Sur.Soc.88355 : Gurgites Prioris Dunelmensis, quorum unus vocatur Hungeryere, se extendit ultra rectas divisas per xlij teisias, et alter, qui vocatur Suere, se extendit ultra divisas per lj teisias.
- (1402-3) *Doc.New Romney [OD col.] : [An entry about new gates to the sluice of the] suergate.
- a1425(c1300) Assump.Virg.(1) (Add 10036)130/704 : That bodi þat þei bere, nyme we it, And cast we it in a foule pit, Or brenne we it, and do it somme where, Or cast we it in a foule sere.
- (1452) *Court R.Long Bennington : [Obstruction of common] Sewer..cum fleykes et ramell.
- (1461) RParl.5.493a : For Sewers, walles of Mersshes, Dyches, Gutters, Causees and Brygges.
b
- [ (1427) Statutes Realm2.236 : Que pur dys ans procheinement ensuantz severalx commissions de Sewers soient faitz as diverses persones par le Chaunceller Dengleterre. ]
- (1444) RParl.5.109a : Hit was ordeyned..that..severals Commissions of Sewers shuld be made unto divers persones.
- (1472-5) RParl.6.158a : It was enacted, ordeyned, and graunted, by auctorite of the same Parlement, that for x yere then next folowyng, severall Commissions of Sewers shuld bee made to dyvers persones.
- (1474) Let.Christ Ch.in RS 85.3274 : Y beseche..yowr gode Lordschyp to have tendyr consyderatyon of the mater..of Apuldre mersche, now beyng a for the Justyces of sewars at Aschford.
c
- (1284) Court R.Ramsey165 : Robertus Atte Suor.