Middle English Dictionary Entry
bisquit(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bisquit(e n. Also besquite, biscute, biscocte. |
| Etymology | OF bescuit, biscuit (ML biscoctum). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Unleavened bread baked in flat cakes (common in seamen's diet).
Associated quotations
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5247/14 : Pro pane albo et bysquyte et viij barellis de farine.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.171 : Armour þei had plente, & god besquite to mete.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)37 : Byscute brede: Biscoctus.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)110/20 : Þis is þe bisquit wher-wiþ he vitaileþ his schip.
- ?c1450 Trivet Constance (Harv Eng.938)229 : Constaunce..made a shyp for to be stored wyth vytayle of a maner of Brede, the whyche ys called Bisquite.
- c1470(?1458) Wey Prevision (Bod 565)4 : The wyne that ye schal drynke be goyd..and also byscocte.
- a1500 Travel Instruc.(CotApp 8)281 : With bisquyte, rede wyn..potage of rys..and suche other metes and drynkes byndyng.