Middle English Dictionary Entry
sursengle n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sursengle n. Also surcingil; pl. sursengles, -cengles, -singlis, soursengles. |
| Etymology | AF surcengle, -sengle, ONF sourçaingle (vars. of OF sorcengle) & AL surcinglum, -singulum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A girth for a horse, perh. one that passes over the blanket, the saddle, a pack, etc., surcingle.
Associated quotations
- (1345-9) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.3199 : iiij sursengles duplic. pro hastilud.
- (1351) Acc.Tewkesbury in BGAS 55254 : In ij paribus surcengles, viij d.
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5213/27-28 : Pro viij burrewez, j sursengle, et j pare raynes, ii novis tailliatis pro sursengles, iij s. iiij d.
- (1394) Wardrobe Acc.Rich.II in Archaeol.62505 : Pro ij soursengles de twyn cum tela duplicatis et boucles grossis et thonges pro hastiludiis, x s.
- (1403-4) in Rec.B.Nottingham 220 : ij sursengles, j d.; ij wamtes, iiij d.
- (1469) Ordin.Househ.Clarence in PSAL (1790)97 : Item, that the maister of the horses..sue for a warraunte..for sadelles, harnesse..sursengles, garthes, and alle suche other.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)322/27 : Aythir smote other in the myddys of their shyldis, that the paytrels, sursynglys, and crowpers braste and felle to the erthe bothe.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)123a : A Surcyngyll [Monson: Surgyrdylle]: Succingula.