Middle English Dictionary Entry
stokking(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | stokking(e ger. Also (in place names) stoking(e, stocking(e, stoccing, stokki-. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act of fixing a gun with a stock or mounting a cannon on a trestle; also, the act of hanging a bell from a timber [1st quot.]; (b) the uprooting or removal of trees, bushes, etc.; (c) ?the threshing of grain; ?error for shaking(e ger.; (d) glossing L incastratura: ?a mortise [cp. Ex.26.17]; ?confinement in stocks; (e) in surname and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.156-7].
Associated quotations
a
- (1450) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99240 : Joh'i Cales pro le stokkynge unius campane ad eccl. predictam, 4 d.
- (1456-8) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.521 : Paid to Robert Uffyntone for stokkyng of the grete gunne 3 s. 4 d.
- (1464) Acc.Howard in RC 57271 : Item..my mastyr payd to John Gonner for iiij dayis werke, he and hys man, in stokkynge of gonnys, ij s. iiij d.
b
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)141 : As it now well apperith be the new husbondry þat is done þer, namely in grobbyng and stokkyng off treis, busses, and groves.
c
- ?a1400 Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.150 : Et faciet stokkinge, quæ vocatur triturare, scilicet, sex garbas bladi, vel aliud opus facere.
d
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)34a(1)/b : Incastratura: stockynge [Add 33534: settinge in stockes; Cnt: incauatura lignorum per quam sibi mutuo copulantur; Pep: incauatura facta cum ferro in latoribus tabellorum].
e
- (1157) EPNSoc.13 (War.)91 : Stoccingford.
- (c1165) EPNSoc.13 (War.)91 : Stokingforth.
- (a1196) EPNSoc.5 (North Riding Yks.)196 : Stocking.
- (1221) EPNSoc.13 (War.)91 : Stockingeford.
- (1249) EPNSoc.5 (North Riding Yks.)57 : Stocking.
- (c1270) EPNSoc.4 (Wor.)205 : La Fenstocking.
- (1293) EPNSoc.13 (War.)91 : Stockynford.
- (1300) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.3114 : Usque ad quoddam uetus fossatune apud le Stockyngesheued.
- (1323) EPNSoc.33 (West Riding Yks.)111 : Stokenge.
- (1327) Sub.R.Stf.in WSAS 7247 : Gilbertus Atte Stockyng.
- (1333) EPNSoc.5 (North Riding Yks.)50 : Le Stockinges.
- (1335) in Bannister PNHerf.176 : Stokkynge.
- (1338) EPNSoc.4 (Wor.)205 : Denestocking.
- (1352) EPNSoc.13 (War.)91 : Stokkyforth.
- (1398) EPNSoc.13 (War.)91 : Stokyngforth.
- (1424) EPNSoc.33 (West Riding Yks.)111 : Stokinge.
- (1453-4) Deed Yks.in YASRS 39108 : [One acre lay in the North Field..in length abutting on] le Stokyng [at the east end].