Middle English Dictionary Entry
tirdel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tirdel n. Also tirdil, turdil, tridel(le, triddel, trid(d)il; pl. tirdelis, etc. & turdeles, tredeles, trodlis. |
| Etymology | From OE tyrdlu, tyrdelu pl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A pellet of the dung of an animal, either domesticated or wild; shep(es ~.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)p.53 : Tak schepe tridels, or swynes muk, and seth it in white wine.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)40 : Men clepen þe steppes or þe marches of þe Otere as men clepe þe trace of þe hert, and his fumes tredeles or spraintes.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)67a : Take..shepis trodlys and shepis tallowe.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)132a/a : Take tridels of a lombe..putte þe triddels in stronge vineger.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)27/25 : Tak þe triddils of an hare & stampe þam with wyne.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)124/318 : Make a pleistre of an hote turdyll of a horse dung..and lay it to her navell.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)124/320 : Take shepis tridellis..and medyll hem wt ȝeltis grese and fry heme..and make a pleystre to the wombe.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)169 : Tak horse dryt to feyre tyrdelys, & boyle hem in vinegre, & make aplastre to here nauel.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)169 : Take schepes turdeles..& mak a plastre to þe wombe.
- a1475 Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)36 : Take a tyrdyll of a gote or of a der or of a chype.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)130a : A Trydyll [Monson: Trydelle]: Ruder.
- a1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)72/310a : Merda: a turdyll.