Middle English Dictionary Entry
shipe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | shipe n. Also shippe, shep(e, (K) ssepe. |
| Etymology | OE scipe |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Payment, wages; -- also pl.; also, a reward.
Associated quotations
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)33/23 : Huo þet serueþ and naȝt uol-serueþ, his ssepe [Vices & V.(2): hure] he lyest.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)86/32 : Þe guodemen..abideþ and wylneþ þane dyaþ ase deþ þe guode workman his ssepe [Vices & V.(2): payment].
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)113/10 : Ine þise dyadliche liue..we moȝe..abyde þe gledlaker oure ssepe [Vices & V.(2): mede].
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)146/5 : Alle we abydeþ on-lepi ssepe, þeþ is, þe blisse wiþ-oute ende.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.568 : Leoun rorynge and bere hongry ben like to the cruel lordshipes in withholdynge or abreggynge of the shepe [vrr. shipe, shepes] or the hyre or of the wages of seruauntz.
- (1423) Acc.Hollingbourne in Archaeol.Cant.13561 : Payde to the said harry and hys man..eche of them for mete and Schepe vj d.
- c1450(c1375) Chaucer Anel.(Benson-Robinson)193 : He was servaunt unto her ladishippe, But lest that he were proud, she held him lowe; Thus serveth he, withoute fee or shipe [vrr. shippe, shep, sheepe]; She sent him now to londe, now to shippe.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)34/29 : Þei..wiþholden wiþ wrong þe schepe [Ayenb.: ssepes] and hire of here seruauntes.