Middle English Dictionary Entry
taverner(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | taverner(e n. Also tavernner, tavernier, tavarnere, tavurner, tawerner, tawirner, (gen.) tavirneris & (error) tauenere; pl. taverneres, etc. & tavernerisse, (error) taueners. |
| Etymology | OF tavernier, taverniere, taverner(e. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. taberner n.
1.
(a) A tavernkeeper; also, a frequenter of taverns [quot. 1340]; ~ wif; (b) as personal name.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)204/4357 : He askede at þe tauarnere, Þat armede folk, what it were.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)51/14 : Þis zenne let man to ssame, Vor alþeruerst he becomþ tauernyer, Þanne he playþ ate des, þanne he zelþ his oȝen, þanne he becomþ ribaud, holyer, and þyef.
- (1362-3) Freeman R.in KRec.18212 : Willelmus Preston, taverner.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ecclus.26.28 : Two spices harde and perilous to me semeden: hard is delyuered the chaffarere fro his necgligence, and the tauerner [L caupo] shal not be iustified fro synnes of lippis.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.707 : Forth they goon towardes that village Of which the tauerner [vr. Tauernner] hadde spoke biforn.
- (1410) Will York in Sur.Soc.4551 : Uni taverner pro vino, xvj d.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)177 : The ballives..in the sesoun bytwixen elde wynes and newe shul takyn with hem of the best vynteres of the toun, and they shal goon and serchyn of all the tavernys and the celerys of the toun..and by other [read: oth; F serement] of good and trewe taverneres..and by avysement of hem self, they shal tasten all the olde wynys that they fyndyn in the toun in taverne or in celer.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)7.701 : This said Nero..Dide ordeyne bexcessiff expence, Tentis for riot, kookis, tauerneeris, And al the niht reuel.
- a1450 12 PTrib.(3) (Bod 423)106/12 : The lord enterditeth the tauerners of his tovn whan he wil selle his owen wyn.
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)124/27 : Prevey theves þer be many, as fals bayles..tapsters, and taueners [read: tauerners].
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)397/5 : A cussyn of his had a grete wrang of a tavurner.
- c1455 Chaucer CT.Prol.(HatDon 1)A.240 : Tauerners [Heng: A frere..knew the tauernes wel in euery town].
- (1468) Acc.Howard in RC 57515 : My master bought of Biset a tavernere within Westmynster x pipes and a Reneshe fat, price the pipe, ix d.
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)33/2 : In subtylle getynge they been carpones [read: caupones], that is to say tauerners, for like as tauerners medlyn watur wt wyne..þese folke medlyn falsheed wt trewþe.
- c1475 in Hodgkin Proper Terms53 : A Glosyng of Tauernerysse.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)125a : A Tauerner [Monson: Tawerner]: Caupo, Caupona, Cauponarius.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)34 : xiiij felawis..dronke more be moch þan þei hadde money to pay for. At þe last the tauernere askid his payment.
- a1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)33/153a : Vxor cauponis: tauyrnerys wyfe.
- a1500 Go ye before (Tit A.26)283 : The gossyppes..callyd the tawyrner to fyll the quarte And lette note for no coste.
- a1500 Hrl.1002 Gloss.(Hrl 1002)623 : Caupo: tauenere [read: tauernere].
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)695/23 : Nomina Reprehensibilium Mulierum: Caupana: a taverner wyffe.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1594 : There were stallis by þe strete stondyng for peopull..Of all þe craftes to ken..Tauerners, tapsters, all the toune ouer.
- a1605(?a1500) Lond.Lickpenny (Hrl 542)105 : Then came the taverner and toke my by þe sleve and seyd, 'Ser, a pint of wyn would yow assay?'
b
- (1175) in Pipe R.Soc.22174 : Walterus Tauerner.
- (1209) Pipe R.Winch41/30 : De Ricardo Taverner.
- (1263) in Fransson Surn.80 : Will. Le Tauerner.
- (1287) Leet R.Norwich in Seld.Soc.510 : Galfridi le taverner.
- (1296) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 1083 : Margeria Relicta Nichi Tauerner.
- (1327) in Fransson Surn.80 : Alicia Tauerner.
- (1376) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.1204 : De Alexandro Taverner pro herbagio.
- (1415) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)9.249 : Willielmus Grantham, alias dictus Taverner Sondeour.
- (1456) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.125218 : A tenement..lying..between a tenement formerly of Roger le Taverner, Hugh le Taverner, and Walter le Taverner, south and a tenement of the archbishop of York, north.
- (a1474) Paston (EETS)2.361 : A blw gown of William Tauernerys.