Middle English Dictionary Entry
shittel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | shittel n. Also shitel, shetel, shedel; pl. sheteles, shettelles, shutles, (K) ssetteles & (early) scitteles, (SWM) scutles & (in surnames) shuttles, shoteles. |
| Etymology | OE scyttel, scittel, scytel, scettel. Sense (b) may show the coalescing of OE scyttel and scutel, scytel dart; cp. ME shitel n.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A bolt, bar; (b) a channel for water, sluice; also, a sluice gate; (c) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.Nicod.(Vsp D.14)85/12 : Belucað fæste þa ændelease gaten, & toforen sceoteð þa ærene & þa irene scytteles.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)127 : Þet [the cross] is þet scutles þeðe deofel ne mei nefre to-cysan.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)94/30 : My zoster, my lemman, þou art a gardin besset myd tuo ssetteles.
- (1348) in Salzman Building in Engl.300 : [For double doors with bands and hasps, locks and iron] shutles [with wooden bars].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)365 : Ondoynge, or opnynge of schettellys, or sperellys: Apercio.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)447 : Schyttyl, or sperynge: Pessulum, vel pessellum.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)460 : Slot, or schytyl [Win: schetyl] of a dore: Verolium.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)417 : Slotte, or schyttynge schytyl of sperynge: pessulum.
b
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)205 : Gote or water schetelys [Win:Way: schedellys] Aquagium, sinoglocitorium.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)445 : Schetelys, or gote..Aquagium.
c
- (1327) Name in LuSE 35114 : Shotelesworth.
- (1332) Name in LuSE 35114 : Shuttlesworth.