Middle English Dictionary Entry
skinner(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | skinner(e n. Also schinner(e, (in surname) skenner. |
| Etymology | From skin n.(1); cp. OI skinnari, OSwed. skinnare, & MLG schinner (var. of schinder). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who prepares or sells animal skins, a furrier, skinner; skinnereswerk, a variety of peltry; grom ~; (b) in surnames; (c) in place names.
Associated quotations
a
- ?c1335 Heil seint Michel (Hrl 913)p.157 : Hail be ȝe skinners wiþ ȝure drenche kiue!
- (1351-2) Freeman R.in KRec.18206 : Adam Calpard, skynner.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.123 : Robert..saw a mayden..þe douȝter of a skynner.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)294a/a : The Catte..is ofte for his fayre skynne y-take of þe skynnere and y-slayne and y-hulde.
- (1400) Comp.R.in Frost Hullapp.17 : ij m skenereswark, m redewark.
- (1418) EEWills34/27 : I bequethe..to Iohn Lemman, Citezein & Skynner of London..my worstede Goune, [etc.].
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)650/36 : Pelliparius: schynnere.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)78a/a : Be þay swed with suture of pelterz, i. skynnerez [Ch.(2): wiþ a skynners seem].
- (1439) EEWills114/12,13 : I be-queth to Thomas Dymmok, Skynner..my best gowne of the lyuere of Skynners craft.
- (1454) Proc.Privy C.6.225 : William Marchall, grome skynnere.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57166 : Item, the same day delyverd..to John Goodwyne, scynner, ij yerdes and a quarter of cremysen engreyned, prise the yerde x s.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57371 : Item, the same day my mastyr bout of the skynner of Bury xx mynkes, prise xiij s. viij d.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)66b/b : Þou schalt sewe it wiþ a smal round nedele & wiþ a silken þreed and þat riȝt þicke in þe same maner as skynneris sewiþ her skynnys.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)115a : A Skynnare: Candidarius, pelliparius.
- (1480) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.IV in Nicolas PPExp.120 : In the wages of John Caster, skynner, and other diverse skynners workinge aboute the furring of diverse roobes and garmentes.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)601/40 : Or a scynnere [Dict.: Penularius: a parmenter].
- c1500(1446) Morstede Surgery (Hrl 1736)117 : Do the sewynge be made in the same maner of wyl as the skynnar sewes furrys.
b
- (1255) Close R.Hen.III135 : Willelmus le Scynnere.
- (1257) Doc.Ireland in RS 53138 : Walterus Sckinir.
- (1264) Doc.Ireland in RS 53161 : Elias le Skenner.
- (1285) in Fransson Surn.119 : Auicia le Skinere.
- (1305) in Fransson Surn.120 : Ad. Le Schinner.
- (1332) Sub.R.Lan.in LCRS 31.273 : Adam le Skynnersone.
- (1332) in Fransson Surn.120 : Agath. le Skynnar.
- (1382) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.597 : Willelmo Skynere.
- (1406) Cart.Oseney in OHS 91194 : Nich. Schynnere.
- (1429) Reg.Langley in Sur.Soc.169166 : Item, to Thomas Skynner the skynner, iiij s.
c
- (1197) Feet Fines Rich.I in Pipe R.Soc.24102 : Skinnereswell.
- (1273) EPNSoc.5 (North Riding Yks.)142 : Scinergreve.
- (1297) EPNSoc.30 (West Riding Yks.)213 : Schinartorp.
- (1301) EPNSoc.5 (North Riding Yks.)142 : Skynnergreve.
- -?-(1406) Will in Som.RS 1620 : [Two tenements in Milverton, whereof one is called] Newplace [situate between the tenements called] Stokhous [on the north side and] Skynerplace [on the south side].