Middle English Dictionary Entry
tailling(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | tailling(e ger. Also tailing, tailend(e & (?error) taileende. |
| Etymology | From taillen v.; the forms tailend(e perh. by confusion with pr.ppl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The reckoning of accounts; (b) income, revenue; also, with prob. punning ref. to tail n. 1b.(c) or tail-ende n. (a) [1st quot.]; (c) financial credit;—with punning ref. to tail n. 1b.(c).
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)9.74 : Whoso is mek of his mouþ..And þoruȝ his labour or his lond his liflode wynneþ, Trusty of his tailende [B vr. taylyng; C: tail], takiþ but his owene..dowel hym folewiþ.
- (1448) Doc.Faversham in Archaeol.Cant.20220 : They shall swere..yf yt kin..be duly provyd..that they gave they said Wessells of Ale and Bere to other personys contrary to the scooryng or Tayllyng..to make A fyne.
b
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)4.372 : Ich wol feffe hym with hure fayre and with hure foule taylende [vr. tail-eende].
- (c1469) Stonor1.104 : Thow I do make my wyffe þe joyntur of my taylend, I dyseryte nat my heyres.
c
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1624 : Thus endeth my tale, and god vs sende Taillyng [vr. Taillynge] ynough vn to oure lyues ende.