Middle English Dictionary Entry
tabard(e n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | tabard(e n.(2) Pl. tabardes, taberd. |
| Etymology | Origin unknown; ?from tabard(e n.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A small tank for holding ale or rainwater.
Associated quotations
- (1442-3) *CLRO MS Mayor's Courtfile 3, 167 m 2 : j taptrogh de plumbo..j massfato..j clensyngton..iiij waterfatt'..j tabard de plumbo.
- (1455) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.184 : [Richard Bonde, tailor, to John Say..2 leaden] tabardes.
- (1457) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.157 : [All the fittings of the brewhouse..viz.]..a colender, a taptrough of lede, a tabard of lede betwix þe clensing fat and þe yeelefat, and a hos..with thapparaille.
- (1471-2) *CLRO MS Bridge House Rental 3fol.196 : In ij taberd plumbi pro le masshyngtunne & le yelyng tunne..ponder' iij qrtr' c xij lb.
- (1474-5) *CLRO MS Bridge House Rental 3fol.244 : In j tabarde pro le growte leede..j quartr' xij lb.
- (1480-81) *CLRO MS Bridge House Rental 3fol.333b : To the tenement that Richard Arnold holdith vpon the Bridge c di. for iij Tabardes in his kechyn.
- (1481-2) *CLRO MS Bridge House Rental 3fol.351 : For a Tabard to a cestern in the kechen of the same william ciij quart' v lb.
- (1482-3) *CLRO MS Bridge House Rental 3fol.370,371 : For iij Tabardes for the tonnes atte Crowne ayenst the Briggehous gate ciij quart' xxvj lb.; ffor a tabard to a kechyn Sestern..j quart' xvij lb.; ffor a tabard of lede to paynes hous..ffor ij tabard' to the kechyn Cesterne in maister gadd' hous.
- (1484-5) *CLRO MS Bridge House Rental 4fol.13 : In the makyng of a Tabard for the soule of the halle wyndowe in the Tenement of Richard Arnold vpon london Brigge.