Middle English Dictionary Entry
skaine n.
Entry Info
| Forms | skaine n. Also skeine, skene & (error in cpd.) skey-. |
| Etymology | OF escagne, escaigne. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A quantity of thread, filament, or string wound on a reel; also, the thread so wound; ~ bred, a part of a loom; -- ?error for sleie bred [s.v. sleie n.].
Associated quotations
- (1323) Chamber J.Edw.II in EHR 30675 : A Johan de Flete pur iiij clewes et vj skeynes de fil de Cambre pur reis, ij s.
- (1373) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.369 : 2 skeynes of poletwyne.
- (1409-12) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.688 : lv skenes de serico crudo, pr. v s.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)457 : Skeyne, of threde: Filipulum, versofilum in gyrgyllum.
- (1442) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1387 : Thomas Wigh for xvj Skaynys of grete packethrede for the masons for mesours..viij d.
- (1486) Doc.in Oppenheim Acc.& Invent.Navy Hen.VII13 : vj skaynes of Saile Twyne.
- a1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)38/166b : Lignum in quo voluuntur tele: skey brede.