Middle English Dictionary Entry
steng n.
Entry Info
Forms | steng n. |
Etymology | OE |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. stang n.(1).
1.
(a) A stick, pole, cudgel; stenges dint, a fine for assault with a stick; (b) as place name [see Smith PNElem.2.150].
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)79/22 : Wið sleȝe isernes oþþe stenges, þeos ylcan wyrte, ȝecnucod & to ȝeled, heo wunderlice ȝehælð.
- (a1195) Doc.in Boldon Bk.p.xlii : In burgo non debet blodwite nec merchete nec heriot nec stengesduit [read: stengesdint] exigi.
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)549/41 : Uectis: steng.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)24029 : [Þ]ai draf him forth wid staf and steng [Vsp: stong].
b
- (a1226) in Mawer PNNhb.& Dur.189 : Steng.