Middle English Dictionary Entry
spinning(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | spinning(e ger. Also spinningue & (error) spynging. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The spinning of thread; the occupation of spinning thread; (b) in cpds.: ~ crok, ?an implement for twisting ropes; ~ fe, a customary rent, perh. a payment made in lieu of a spinning service; ~ hous, a room used for spinning thread; ~ whel; (c) the spinning of a thread or web by a spider.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)261/18 : With spinningue and with seuwingue hire liflode heo wan.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.401 : Deceite, wepyng, spynnyng, god hath yeue To wommen.
- a1425 PPl.C (Hnt HM 143)9.74 : Pore folk..Þat they with spynnyng may spare, spenen hit on hous-huyre.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)436 : Rokke, of spynnynge: Colus.
- (?c1440) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.12078 : That noon..meld garn, nother of thair awne spynnyng nor bought spon.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)585/32 : Fusura: spynnynge.
- a1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)69/307b : Filitura: spynnyng.
- ?a1500 Othea (Hrl 838)100/1 : Yraygnes..Ageyn pallas comparyng in sotyll vsage Of weyuyng & spynnyng, caused þe goddes Her to transforme to a yreygnes lykenes.
b
- (1302-3) Cust.Rent in OSSLH 2111 : De iii s. i d. ob. de quadam certa consuetudine que vocatur spenningfe relaxata.
- (1404) in Rec.B.Nottingham 222 : Item, de bonis Ricardi Walker..j spynyng wheel et paria de cardes, xij d.
- (1411) in Rec.B.Nottingham 284 : Appretiatores..j spynging [?read: spyning] whele, x d.
- (1426) *Acc.R.Newlond : Unam rotam voc. SpynnyngWhel, precio vi d.
- (1446) Invent.Lytham in Chet.n.s.6081 : In the haghous..j Sewyng neld, xiij Syderopes..j spynnyng croke, ij Mukcrokes for Mukcowpes.
- a1450 Sentence in YULG 60 (Yale 3.34)54 : A rok and reyl and spenyng weyll [L tornum filatorium], my babyll vagis neuer a deyll.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4920 : Item, to close..ye dore yt is out of ye parlour into ye spynnyng hous, wiche spynnyng hous I wille euer longe to my hefd place and the drawt chambyr above ye spynnyng hous therto.
- (1475) *Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls Bundle 49, no.8 [OD col.] : i saucer, i spynnyngwhele in manu servientis.
c
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)78/25 : Þe yraignes..cecith not of spynnyng and weving.