Middle English Dictionary Entry
trouel n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | trouel n.(1) Also trouwel, trowel(le, trowille, trowal, truel, truwel, trul(le, treuel, trewel; pl. trowel(i)s, etc. & trolles, (17th cent.) triulis. |
| Etymology | OF trüele, truel(le, trualle, triuele, AF truuele, trul(le, trouel & L trulla, truella, AL trowella, trolla scoop, trowel; a few quots. may belong to ME trouel n.(2). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A hand tool with a flat or curved blade attached to a short handle, a trowel; also, an instrument or a tool of unspecified form and use [chiefly gloss. quots.]; ~ of (a) masoun.
Associated quotations
- (1295) in Salzman Building in Engl.336 : Truell [for the masons].
- (1344) *Pipe Roll (PRO) 18 Edw.III m.45 [OD col.] : iiij hamers, iiij trowellis, ij hirdellis pro lymeputtes.
- (1362) Invent.Monk-Wear.in Sur.Soc.29159 : In curia..j trouell.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Amos 7.7 : Loo! the Lord stondynge on a wall teerid, or morterd, and in the hond of hym a truel of masoun [vr. trouwel of a masoun; WB(2): trulle of a masoun].
- (1388-9) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.5157 : In officio gardinarii..j malleus et j trul'.
- (1397-8) Doc.in Boyle Hedonp.cvii : Soluti pro j trowell empto pro plasturer, ij d.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)65/10 : Þey beþ iseye [to] haue trolles and honginge plomettes & mesures and towles [of] workmen.
- (1407) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)7.188 : [A tiler's] truwell.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)8b/b : Bachio: atreuel.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)503 : Trowel [Win: trowal], ynstrument: Trulla.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.415 : The parget of thy wough be strong & bryght; The trewel first ful ofte hit most distreyne.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)567/13 : Bacis: a truel.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)130b : A Trowell [Monson: Trowelle]: bacho, trulla.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)728/29 : Trolla: a trowylle.
- 1662(1278-81) Bk.Vale Royal in LCRS 68 (Hrl 2064)195 : [For 10] bechis [and] triwlis.