Middle English Dictionary Entry
trap(pe n.(3)
Entry Info
| Forms | trap(pe n.(3) Also trape, (error) tarppe. |
| Etymology | OF trape, trappe cooking utensil. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A vessel in which food is cooked; foil ~, a pastry shell; seu ~, the name of a dish in which a stew is encasseroled [cp. seu-pote, s.v. seu n.(1) (b)].
Associated quotations
- c1400 Form Cury (Hrl 1605)133.159/2 : Take blode of swyne, floure, & larde idysed, salt & mele; do hit togedre. Bake hyt in a trappe [Dur-U: tarppe] wyt wyte gres.
- a1425(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)133.158/6 : Take swyne lyuours and seeþ hem wel..Make a crust in a trape and lay þe ball þerin & bake it.
- a1425(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)133.160/4 : Take ayren and wryng hem thurgh a cloth..Make a foyle in a trap & bake it wel þerinne.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)54 : Sew trappe: take ii lytel erþen pannys, [etc.].
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.40 : Take peiuns and smalle chekuns with alle And oþer smale bryddes and hew hom smalle..make a fole trap þou mun, Pynche hym, cowche hym þy flesshe þerby.