Middle English Dictionary Entry
souder(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | souder(e n. Also soudore, soudour, soudur(e, soudre, souldour & sauder, saudir, saudore, saudeor, saudre, (error) sawere. |
| Etymology | OF soudëure, soudure, saudëure, saudure, sauldure, saudre; also cp. AL soldura, soudara, soudura, soudyra. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Solder; (b) pl. ?soldering-irons.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1320) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100514 : In Soudour empt. pro reparacione plumbi de Bracina, 8 d.
- (1375-6) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.5127 : In iiijxxiiij li. de soudur emptis, xiiij s. x d.
- (1381-2) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103592 : In 14 lib. de Saudore empt..4 s. 1 d.
- (1394) *Mun.B.Bridgewater2 : In stagno empto ad faciendum Saudre.
- (c1400) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3520 : In iij dos' tyn emptis pro soudre, 8 s. 8 d.
- (1404-5) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 783 : Pro stipendio unius plummer et pro saudeor ad campanile ecclesie.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.157/528 : Item, for ij lb. of Sowder yn þe goter ouer þe parlour nygh þe gardeyn of Jonette Brigham..xij d.
- (1428) Doc.in Sur.Soc.851 : Yar ys a Constitucion in ye crafte of Girdelers..yat nane of yat crafte wirke any lede amang other metaill, but yf yt be in souldour.
- (1429-30) Rec.St.Mary at Hill72 : For iij lb. sowdore, xviij d.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)612/33 : Soldatura: Sowdere.
- (1465-6) Acc.Howard in RC 57323 : Item, for ij li. sawere [vr. sowdere], xij d.
- (1465-6) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2564 : In j d. gutture plumbi..in sawdyr ad idem iij d.
- (1467) Acc.St.John Peterb.in Antiq.51410 : Payd to the Plumer for makyng of the spowts of ledd & Sowdyr therto for schelyng of ledd & hyllyng of Saynt John Chapell, lv s. viij d.
- (1468) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31404 : Paide to plommer for amendyng of a gotter and for ij lb. sawdir.
- (a1472) Acc.Bodmin in Camd.n.s.1420 : Item, for castynge and settynge lede, xlj c, xlj s.; Item, for sauder, lvij, xiiij s. iij d.
- (1473-4) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum15 : Item, in wages of a man helping the plumer, x d.; Item, in Sowdire to the same bought, iiij s. vj d.
- a1475 Limn.Bks.(Brog 2.1)82 : To make sowder of tynne: take v partys of pece sylvere and of latone and do medylle hit togedyre with a lytelle boras.
- (1477) RParl.6.185a : In a Parlement..was ordeigned that no..wyrker of Sylver..selle any thyng wrought of Sylver but if it shuld be as fyne as the sterlyng, except that that nedith Soudour in the makyng, which shuld be allowed after as the Soudure shuld be necessarie for to be wrought in the same.
b
- (1387) in Salzman Building in Engl.180 : Soudours.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. souder.