Middle English Dictionary Entry
snak n.
Entry Info
| Forms | snak n. Also snack & snek. |
| Etymology | LOE snacc & ON: cp. OI snekkja; also cp. AL e)snecka, esnacca & AF esnecke, AF/ONF esneke, vars. of OF esneche. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A ship of some kind, esp. a light, fast ship.
Associated quotations
- (1299) Statutes Ireland 1216 : Pro fretto cuiusdam nauis que vocata fuit le Snack et pro victualibus in ea positis.
- (1299-1300) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.I in PSAL (1787)275 : Johi Kittey, magistro del snak de la Rye, 2 const' et 39 sociis suis nautis, pro eodem, per idem tempus 23 l. 12 s. 6 d.
- (1299-1300) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.I in PSAL (1787)275 : Johi Manekyn, magistro del snak, Sancti Thome, ejusdem ville, [etc.].
- (?c1350) Rec.Norwich 2201 : D' le snek, viij d.; D' le hulch, iiij d.; Et si il porte blee, iiij bz.