Middle English Dictionary Entry
binne n.
Entry Info
| Forms | binne n. Also bin. |
| Etymology | OE bin(ne |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A stall or stable; also, a manger or crib; (b) a chest or bin (as for grain, flour, bread); bred ~; (c) ?a place of confinement.
Associated quotations
a
- 1372 In bedlem is (Adv 18.7.21)24 : In pouerte þat prince him pitthe to ben born in a bynne.
- 1372 Lullay lullay litel child child (Adv 18.7.21)14 : Child, it is a weping dale þat þu art comen inne..þi bed mad in þe binne.
- c1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)401 : Beestes gan Belwe in eueri binne.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)1449 : Beestys to the bynne, for stormys, dar nat tarye.
- a1450 Ch.Feasts (Roy 18.A.10)47 : Whan god was borne with beest in bynne.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)150/117 : Heyl in a bestys bynne, Be-stad in a stalle!
b
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.593 : Wel koude he kepe a gerner and a bynne; Ther was noon auditour koude on hym wynne.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.176/1134 : iiij bordes for þe keverynge of þe bynnes yn þe pantrie.
- (1439) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)261/6 : An almari and a binne for Bred.
- (1444) Acc.Bk.Carpenter Co.10 : For ye workmanship..of ye bred byn.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)582 : Faricapsa: a bynne.
c
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)220 : Al holy, Mankynne to helle but I wynne, In bale is my bynne [?read: inne] & schent vndyr schawe.