Middle English Dictionary Entry
trait n.
Entry Info
| Forms | trait n. Also traite, treit, treiet, treiit, tret. |
| Etymology | AF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Bread made with a coarse wheat flour, designated by statute the second lowest quality of bread; ?also, a coarse wheat flour, usu. in phrases: bred of (panis de, panis) ~; ~ lof; ~ whete.
Associated quotations
- [ (c1290) Britton 1 (Lamb 403)p.186 : Le payn de trayt peyse deus gastels. ]
- (?1267) Statutes Realm1.199 : Quando quarterium frumenti venditur per xij d. tunc panis quadrantis de Wastello ponderabit sex libras & sexdecim solidos..Panis vero de trait [vr. tret] ponderabit duos Wastellos.
- (a1307) Doc.Gildh.Lond.in RS 12.3411 : Item, panis de trait (i. panis bissus) ponderabit duos wastellos.
- a1325 *Rwl.Statutes [OD col.] (Rwl B.520)lf.43b : Of al hol bred þe furþingwort sal weie a coket ant an half, Bred of trait sal weie tuuei wasteles.
- (1326) Doc.Oxf.in OHS 73173 : Panis de treiyt Thome de Mershe de ob. def. in pondere.
- (1337) Doc.Oxf.in OHS 73177 : Ric' Wythemele habet i treyt de ob. & def.
- (c1350) Doc.Oxf.in OHS 73134 : A ferþyng traite lof shal weye to ferþyng wastell.
- (c1400) Doc.Oxf.in OHS 73131 : Panis autem de treit de quadrante ponderabit ii wastellos.
- (1424) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100362 : Robertus Broun, pistor..panis albus obolatus bonus, panis treit obolatus.
- (1424-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100371 : Thomas Robynson Milner & pistor..j panis albus obolatus, j panis de tret.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)175 : It is ordeyned..That every baxter..use his craft in certayn..summe makyn wastel, ferst coket, and trayt [ID(1): trayt] all oonly; and summe symnel and trayt; and summe breed of hool whete.
- a1486 Assize Bread in Archaeol.57 (Mrg M 775)59 : The wastell of a ferthinge..schal weye vj pounde & xv s..A loof of clene whete of a ferthinge schal weye a Coket and an half, the loof of treiet whete schal weye ij wastelles.