Middle English Dictionary Entry
shōld(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | shōld(e adj. Also sholt, sheld(e, (K) shealde & (in names) shald(e-, sceld-, shelt- & (?error) scold; comp. shalder. |
| Etymology | OE: cp. WS sceald, sceld, A *scald. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of water: shallow; (b) of a vessel or pit: shallow, not deep; (c) of the point of a surgical needle: short; (d) in surname and place names.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)191b/b : Suche drawyng makeþ þe grounde and þe see vneuen..in some place depe and in some place sholde [L vadosum].
- c1400 *Trev.Higd.(Tbr D.7)87a : Þe kyng..wolde make þat gret ryuer so schoolt [vrr. schoold; schalowe] þat þe water scholde noȝt tylle to wymmen knen.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)447 : Schold, or schalowe, noȝte depe, as water or oþer lyke: Bassa.
b
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)89/116 : Many man..weyneþ þat he be out of peryl, Oþer ine senne so schealde, Þat hym ne douteþ of ne breche Of godes hestes healde.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)167 : Flew, or scholde [Win: scold], as vessell, or oþer lyke: Bassus.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)1/7 : I purpose..to makyn a gret werk..of a schelde pytt to makyn a depe welle.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)65/9 : Ȝif þi scope of penaunce be to scheld, it takyth no watyr of sorwe.
c
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)89a/a : Þe pointes moste ben depper oþer schalder after þe quantite of þe wounde þat schal be sewed.
d
- (1203) EPNSoc.17 (Not.)241 : Scheltford.
- (1221) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)200 : Sceldwere.
- (1301-2) Name in LuSE 35125 : De Schaldeford.
- (1343) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)87 : Shaldeford.
- (1349) Name in LuSE 35125 : Schaldforth.
- (1377) in Mawer PNNhb.& Dur.177 : Sheldeforth.