Middle English Dictionary Entry
sleie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sleie n. Also slai(e, (in surnames) sle-, sleg-, -slegh, sclai- & (error) szaly. |
| Etymology | OE sleahe, slēa, slǣ & slege, slæge an instrument. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A part of a loom, consisting of wires or strips of reed, wood, etc., set in a frame, used for forcibly compressing the weft, a weaver's reed; ~ bred; ~ makere; webbinge (wevinge) ~; (b) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- (1316) Doc.in Dugdale Monasticon 2585 : In j slay pro textoribus, viij d.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)452 : Purveier coveint de une lame [glossed:] a webbyng szaly [vrr. slaye, the weving slay].
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)340 : En la tistre par-my lame: Wouyn thorue slay.
- (1404) in Rec.B.Nottingham 222 : Appretiatores unius wollyn weblome cum uno cam et j slay.
- (1410) in Rec.B.Nottingham 270 : Pari de slayes, pretii xx d.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)458 : Slay, webstarys loome: Lanarium, radius.
- (1442) RParl.5.60b : Diverse persones..maken untrewe ware of all maner Worstedes..and the Slayes and Yern therto belangyng untruly been made and wrought.
- a1450(?1404) As þe see (Dgb 102)6 : Worldys gooddis..goþ, y wot not whyder, As ende of web out of slay.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)601/7 : Pecten..a sleye.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57300 : For a slaye, viij d.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)115a : A Slay: pecten, lama.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)696/15 : Lamia: slay.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)728/12 : Lanea: a slaye.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)591/29 : Lama: sley-brede.
- -?-(1388-9) Reg.Freemen York in Sur.Soc.9689 : Johannes Whyt, slaymaker.
b
- (1246-7) *in Pilkington Surn. : Adam Schakeslegh.
- (1250) in Fransson Surn.167 : Walt. le slegwrechte.
- (1279) in Fransson Surn.168 : Henr. Slayman.
- (c1280) Surname in Mun.Magd.Oxf.97 : Slaywreste, Nich.
- (1286) in Fransson Surn.167 : Will. le Sclaywryhte.
- (1306) in Webb Rec.St.Barth462 : Willelmus Sleeman.
- (1327) Sub.R.Som.in Som.RS 3185 : Reginaldus Sleywright.
- (1400) in Davenport Nrf.Manorp.lxxii : Joh. Slaywryght.