Middle English Dictionary Entry
sharping(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | sharping(e ger. Also sherping. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Sharpening of edge or point; tonges of ~, sharp tongues; (b) coll. nails of some kind; ~ nail; (c) irritation, exasperation; (d) intensifying; improving, augmenting.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390 Psalt.Mariae(1) (Vrn)499 : Þei dude fayle Þat hedden tonges of scharpynge And [read: As] swerd þat kerueþ Mayle.
- (1424-5) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.81152 : Item, Thomæ Qwernside pro scharpyng et wellyng of wegges de ferro, 5 d.
- (1447-8) *Mun.B.Bridgewater17 : Item, to Nicol Goff for sharpyng of Naylis & makynge of Nailys of the Ire before write, ij s. iij d.
- (1471-2) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9994 : Pro le ryvyng et sharpyng ml. d del stakes apud Beaurepair et Rilley.
b
- (1312-13) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 1159 : En clenchingnail et scherpingnail a la Nief et au bat, xxiiij s., vj d. ob.
- (1465) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 1159 : Item, for a quarter of sharpenge for the rother, iiij d.
c
- a1400 Primer (StJ-C G.24)17 : To day ȝif ȝe han herd his uoyse, willith nouȝt harden ȝoure hertes as in scharpynge [Cmb: þe terryng to wraþþe; L irritatione].
d
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)309a/b : For such scharpyng with blood of a worme þat rede colour was y-cleped vermiculus.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)132/4 : The fifthe is religious abstinens and þat is for wynnyng of vertue..and for scharping of oure gostly undirstonding in wynnyng of wisdom.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)33 : Late the case be taken for a new lerning, and to the sharping of goode corages, to the refourmyng and amendement of theire wittis.