Middle English Dictionary Entry
shǒut(e n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | shǒut(e n.(2) Also schout, scoute, skoute, shute, schuit, scut. |
| Etymology | Prob. from MLG schūte, schutte or MDu. schute, schuyt, scute. Also cp. ON (cp. OI skūta); AL scūta, scouta, schoutum, shouta, s(c)hūta; & AF escute, OF scute. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A flat-bottomed boat, barge; (b) ~ man, the master of a shoute; also, a sailor on a shoute; also as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (1295) *Acc.Exch.K.R.5/8.m.13 [OD col.] : j Mast submittendo de quadam naue que vocatur Scoute.
- (1326) Close R.Edw.II652 : [They placed the said merchants in a boat called] skoute [and sent them to Flanders].
- (1340) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)1.440 : [To the said Thomas and John conjointly his] schuyt [with appurtenances].
- (1350) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.262 : [One great boat and one small boat and one] shoute.
- (1376) RParl.2.345b : Un neof, un creyer, un shoute, un cogge-shipp.
- (a1395) Acc.Savoy in Archaeol.24311 : j Dongebote vocatur Showte.
- (1399) RParl.3.444b : Ils ont ewe graunde perde de lour Shoutes, alantz & passantz par le Ryver del Tamys.
- c1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)2793 : Ihesus sayd þan it were no syn To make water nerrer þe ton to ryn At bere bothe ship & shout.
- 1419 Liber Albus Lond.in RS 12.1239 : Item, de qualibet scut descendente in dicta Ripa, cum busca sive blado, capiendus est i denier.
- (1421) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.132 : [Divers men fix their boats and] shoutes [to a post of the said latrine].
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)4813 : Ageynes hem comen here naueye, Cogges..many galeye, Barges, schoutes, crayeres ffele.
- (1464) RParl.5.569b : There hath be common and free passage uppon your Water of Severne..with Trowes, Botes, Cobles, and Shutes.
- a1500 PFulham (Jas 43)72 : Comyth ther not al day owt of hollond and flaundre Off fatte eles full many a showte?
b
- (1365) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.43 : [John Wylkyn,] schoutman.
- (1381) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms84 : Thom. Shouteman.
- (a1395) Acc.Savoy in Archaeol.24313 : Diversis marinariis vocatur Shoutemen.
- -?-(c1405) Doc.in Welch TBridge52 : [The] shuteman [who had charge of the] shoute.