Middle English Dictionary Entry
shop(pe n.
Entry Info
Forms | shop(pe n. Also shope, chop(p)e, shep, (SW) ssoppe & (in place names) scop-, sop-, shup-. |
Etymology | OE scoppa, sceoppa; cp. OF escope, essope, choppe, AF shope & ML shopa, sopa, scupa, choppa. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A room or building used as a place of business by a victualer, craftsman, etc.; also fig.; boueres (corveiseres, etc.) ~; open ~, a shop open to the public; also fig.; spice ~; (b) ~ holdere, one who manages a shop like that in (a); holden ~, to manage a shop; holden open ~, engage openly in business at a shop; also, keep a shop open (on Sundays); also, keep a shop actively in operation; kepen ~, take care of a shop temporarily; kepen open ~, engage openly in business at a shop; setten up ~, establish a shop; (c) a room, building, etc. available for use as a shop; ~ rente, rent paid for the use of a shop; draper ~; (d) shoppe(s windoue, a window of a shop; (e) a booth at a fair; (f) a workshop; (g) in surnames; (h) in place names, street names, or shop name [see Smith PNElem.2.107].
Associated quotations
a
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11222 : Þe bowiares ssoppe hii breke & þe bowes nome echon.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Co.(Manly-Rickert)A.4393 : A prentys reuelour..His maister shal it in his shoppe [vr. shep] abye.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)2.175 : Gile doþ him to go..Ac marchauntis..Besshette hym in here shoppis to shewen here ware, Aparailide hym as a prentice þe peple to serue.
- (1403-4) LRed Bk.Bristol2.182 : No person of the iiij Craftes aforeseyd ne vse not no maner worke in here halles ne in here schoppes..til that they be burgeys.
- (1418) Grocer Lond.in Bk.Lond.E.198/110 : Also, that the Maystres..goon and asseyen weyghtys, powdrez, confescions, plasters, Oynementz..they takyng in euery schope that theyfyndyn defectyue.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)4/29 : Vp þis brigge þere is a schop or a place ordeyned where mete schal be ȝouen to þe weigoers.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)288/25 : I putte hym al to ȝou as an opyn schop where ȝe myȝte se and taaste meruelous loue þat I hadde to ȝou.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)46 : Boþe, chapmannys schoppe: Pella, selda.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)472 : Stalle, be-forne a schoppe: Stallus, ferculum.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)413 : An aldirman in londoun hadde leefir þat his prentise or seruaunt schulde a bide stille in þe schop forto make sale of his chafare..þan forto breke of.
- (1444) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)293 : Be it proclamed that no maner Fisshmonger, Bochier..selle no manere vitaille upon the Sonday..in noone opyne shope.
- a1450(?1409) Vision Staunton (Roy 17.B.43)74 : There growid many treis..swetter of sauour þan al þe spicers shoppes.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)125/540 : Take of..old scho-soles or of þe keruynge of leþer þat þou schalt fynde in corueseruus schoppes.
- (1450) Doc.in Power Craft Surg.325 : Also that no persons of the said craft of barbours..huyre no ffraunchised man of the same craft oute of his shopp ne dwellyng place.
- (1467) Acc.Howard in RC 57591 : My master must yeff to Melsam therfore as good a bowe as he cane chose in a boweres shoppe.
- (1468) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31403 : Paide..for a paire garnetts for the shoppe dorr in the same hous.., to Crowchier, smyth..for a lok to the shoppe dorr.., to a carpenter..for the parclose of the schoppe.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)118b : A Spice Schope: Apotheca uel jpotheca.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)248/23 : This man was a chapman, And..he brouȝt this image and sette it afore his booþe where-in were cloþis, gold, syluer, and other riches..And so he yede his way, leuynge the schoppe open, as he hadde leuyd there-in many kepers.
- 1530(c1450) Mirror Our Lady (Fawkes)139 : This psalme ys a paradyce full of fruyte and a shoppe full of spyces of the holy gooste.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Co.(Manly-Rickert)A.4422 : A compeer..hadde a wyf that held for contenaunce A shoppe and swyued for hir sustenaunce.
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.78 : Euerych soutere þat wonyeþ in þe Citee þat halt shoppe shal to þe kynge by custome sex pans by þe ȝere.
- (1409) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.125178 : Item, is [read: it] is ordand that no person of the same crafte sall sett upp no shopp nor occupy als maistre in the sayd crafte..before the tyme he be..approved for ane able werkman be the serchours of the sayd crafte.
- (1415) Rec.Norwich 1106 : Al manere foreins yt now in Norwich holde no shoppe shul holde shoppe..in yis fourme.
- (1418) Grocer Lond.in Bk.Lond.E.195/26 : All tho that bien owte of the clotyng, and he hold shop, schall paye xij d.
- (1423) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.131/19 : Mawde Sheppyster holt opyn Shopp and retaylith and ys no Frewoman.
- (1428) Doc.in Sur.Soc.854 : Ye sayd Mayr and ye Counsell..charged hym..yat he suld hald na shopp of his opyn within ye fraunchise of ye cite.
- (1438) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.10 : That euery persone, houshoulder of the saide craft, that holdethe open shope by the strete side within the saide Cite or in the suburbs therof, from this tyme forward paie yerly to the relef of pouer men of the same Craft xij d.
- (1438) LRed Bk.Bristol2.168 : Euery maistre of the seide crafte..euery sonday..not to holde open schoppes.
- (1449) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)124 : They schalle not suffre no man to playe at þe tenyes wtinne the sayd place Excepte thoo that ben Fremen Shoppeholderys of þe sayd Feleshepe.
- (1450) Doc.in Power Craft Surg.322 : Euery barbour..holdyng eny shoppe of barberye wythin the Citie of London shall be redy att all manner sommons.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.204 : Wherby schul men knowyn an oppyn usurer?..Ȝif he kepe opyn stacioun or oppyn schoppe to lendyn or to chanchyn for usure.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)248/22 : Nicholas, kepe wele my schoppe, for I haue certeyne erendes for to be spedde.
c
- (a1327) RParl.1.466a : Restitucion de un Mees & treis Shopes..en..Berewyk sur Twede.
- (1379) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.8198 : j schopp ad portam occidentalem cymiterii nunc in tenura Johannis.
- (a1395) Acc.Savoy in Archaeol.24311 : D' ij shopis utraq. ad x s. et j ad iiij s. del Schoprent.
- (1438) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.10 : Also, that no persone..mak no maner brogate..for any suche shop, hous, stondinge place, nor parcel of grounde, and, in especial, in feires, markettes, and places oute of this Citee.
- (c1450) Invent.Catherine in SANHS 7103 : Willm. Thomas, Boucher, for a shopp by ye yere, xvj s.
- (1452) Doc.in Rec.B.Nottingham 2362 : Robert Bercroft tuk in ferme..a nother comon graund with a draper chope on it..ye quelk chope John Breghtforht yat tyme held of ye Comons.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.132/29 : We..have iȝeve..vj meses..In-to an Eschaunge for..j water mylle, xiiij ȝerdes of londe, xxti acris of mede, and j schoppe, with þe pertinences.
- a1500(1396) Indent.Francisc.in RS 4.1 (Vit F.12)522 : The sayd Mayer, Aldermen..shall make a wall of Stone..rayryng the sayd wall from the grownd in hyeght couenable for to bere the gystes of the Solers to be edified above the choppes.
d
- (1415) Rec.Norwich 1106 : Ye Mayster of his craft shal..ȝife hym warnynge to be a freman or elles sper in his shop wyndowes..and he so spered in..shal not holde his craft wit in hows ne wt owten.
- (1447-8) Shillingford85 : Yn the whiche walle buth diverse shoppez wyndowes of olde tyme hadde, the leves ther of goyng ynward.
- (1454-5) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15159 : Item, for naylys & bordes to the Shop Wyndowe.
- c1455 Chaucer CT.Mil.(Hrl 1758)A.3695 : Shoppe [Heng: He rometh to the Carpenters hous And stille he stant vnder the shot wyndowe].
- (c1478) Tailors' Gild Exeter304 : Some were disfraunchised..some theire shop windows shutt downe.
e
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)232/11 : A man is goying in a fayre þer þe shoppes be shcet [read: schet].
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)108/8 : Þer was a yong man þatt went vnto a fayre, and..he come vnto a shop þer ane old man [st]ude.
f
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)599/10 : Operarium: a shoppe or a werkehous.
g
- (1301) Pat.R.Edw.I620 : William atte Shoppe.
- (1307) Plea R.Edw.I in WSAS 7174 : Henry in le Schoppe.
- (1334) Surnames in Bardsley D.687 : Margery atte Shoppe.
- (1341) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames318 : Thomas atte Shoppe.
- (1377) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)199 : Hugh atte Schoppe.
- (1390) Doc.Oxf.in OHS 733 : Iohannes Atte Shoppe.
- (1434) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms192 : Joh. Shopman, cordwainer.
- (1449) Will All Sts.in BGAS 24125 : Johanni Shoppe.
- (1456) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms192 : Joh. Shopman.
h
- (1199) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)200 : Scopland.
- (1205) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)200 : Sopland.
- (1254) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)200 : Sheplaund.
- (1278-9) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)1.37 : [To Adam..a shop called] la Cornereschoppe.
- (1304) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)200 : Shupland.
- (1342) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)200 : Sheplond.
- (1378) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)200 : Shophamlane.
- (1404) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)200 : Shophamstede.
- (1442) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 7114 : Ric. Higecok for rent of Church house in schoprewe xx d.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1425 Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)91/1133 : Apotecha: a seler, a bern, a shoppe.
Note: Additional quot. for sense (a).--per MLL