Middle English Dictionary Entry
tin n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | tin n.(1) Also tin(n)e, tene. |
| Etymology | OE |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The metal tin; ston of ~, a plumb bob, plummet; (b) in cpds. and combs.: ~ basse [s.v. ting-basse n.]; ~ foil, tin beaten into a thin sheet; ~ glas, bismuth; ~ nail, tin nails; —also coll.; ~ panne; ~ tol, a fee for mining tin; ~ werk, a place where tin is worked or manufactured; (c) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)163 : Ðe chire[che] cloðes ben to brokene and ealde..Ðe corporeals sole and unshapliche..Ðe caliz of tin.
- (1294) *Acc.Exch.(PRO) 5/2 [OD col.] : Clavi de tin.
- (1348) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.3 : The mesure of the alay of an c tyn is xxvj lb. lede, and that is called vessells of tyn for euer.
- (1354-5) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.8191 : In viij lb. de tynne emp. pro stauro ecclesiæ pro fenestris vitreis emendandis ..2 s. 8 d. prec. lb. 4 d.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1339 : Þat vessel was of golde gay þat scholde be tyn & bras.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Zech.4.10 : The hondis of Zorobabel foundiden this hous and..shuln perfourme it..thei..shuln see a stoon of tyn in the hond of Zorobabel.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.828 : Iuppiter is tyn And Venus coper.
- (1419) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)127 : j paire crewets of tyn.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)494 : Tynne, metal: Stannum.
- (c1450) Invent.Catherine in SANHS 7103 : ij cruetts of tyne.
- (a1474) Paston (EETS)2.361 : A box of tene with syluer wire.
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)72/28 : Erthly aier most lorshippeth, as gold, siluer, bras, iren, lede, tyn, stones, margarites, corall, tutie, alum and such other.
- a1500 Sln.2584 Med.Miscell.(Sln 2584)124/3 : Melte þi tyn and caste þi mercurie þer-in.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)195 : Þat cloister..was..y-paued wiþ peynt..Wiþ kundites of clene tyn.
b
- (1339-40) Sacrist R.Ely 296 : In v de Tynnayl. empt..prec. millen. xj d.
- (1356) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.283 : [One] tynpan.
- (1381-2) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100389 : In 300 tinnail et vernys empt. pro ostio parliamenti in claustro.
- (1387) *For.Acc.(PRO) 14 Rich.II A dorso [OD col.] : j Coffyn plena de Tyn-foille, precii xxvj s. viij d.
- (1393-4) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.81120 : In cc Tynnayle pro stauro, 12 d.
- (a1399) Pet.Chanc.in Seld.Soc.1050 : L'ou le dit Robert ad vn profit deins le dit Manoir appelle Tyntol, le dit Rauf l'ad pris a soun oeps demesne encountre la ley.
- (a1450) *Pet.Chanc.PRO ser.CP 1 file 12no.202 : John Nansederne of seynt Anstell..& Michel Carlyen of Carlyen, husbondman..hys tynwerk entryd, brake, & maynvryd.
- (1461-2) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum8 : Pro pictura diuers' diademat' vltra Tynfoile.
- (1467-8) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9992 : Le Tynfole empt. pro ornacione.
- (1475) RParl.6.134b : Thomas Nevill..had a Tyn werk within the..Counte of Cornewaill.
- (1477-9) *Acc.Exch.K.R.Bundle 496 No.18 [OD col.] : Pro..Tynnefoile, Canvas.
- a1500 in Singer Cat.Alchem.1.319 : Tynglas pulverizatum misce cum aceto vel urina et obture in vitro in frino equino per mensem unam.
c
- (1254-67) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.2228 : Henrico Tynnepanne.
- (1442) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)624 : Iohanni Tincok.