Middle English Dictionary Entry
twinter n.
Entry Info
| Forms | twinter n. Also twintour, (N) qwintter. |
| Etymology | From OE twiwintre, twiwinter adj.; cp. MnE dial. (chiefly Northern) twinter, (Scot.) quinter. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A stock animal that has passed its second winter, a two-year-old; ~ noute, two-year-old cattle.
Associated quotations
- (1404-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100399 : In Bovario sunt..24 stott' trium annorum, de quibus, 4 annorum..14 twynterys.
- (1407-8) Will in HMC Var.Col.216 : [Among various other legacies are gifts of] unum thyntour et unum thyrntour [and] unum twyntour.
- (1439-41) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.ccxxxiii : Stuffum Domus prædictae..In primis ij tauri, xxvij boves, xl vaccae, iij twynters, xxxj stirkes, ix vituli.
- (1442) Will York in Sur.Soc.3087 : Do et lego..fratri meo septem animalia vocata twynternawt.
- (1466) Will York in Sur.Soc.30284 : I wite to ylkon of my sonnes v twynters and two threnter stotts.
- (1466-7) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.ccciii : In vj qwyntters emptis de Johanne Turnour, xxxv s.