Middle English Dictionary Entry
vēl(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | vēl(e n. Also vĕl, veille, feiel, fel(e, felle, wel(l)e, (in late cpd.) veale-. |
| Etymology | OF vëel, AF vel(e, veal, veil. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The flesh of a calf used as food; ~ pulled, ?shredded or chopped veal;
(b) a calf, esp. one butchered for food;—also coll.; ~ skin;
(c) an image or a statue of a calf [cp. calf n.(1) 3.(a)]; golden ~.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325 Add.46919 Cook.Recipes (Add 46919)45.6/1-2 : Haucegeme: Milke of alemauns…veel ipolled, veel icoruen ase deez, [etc.].
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1420 : Bet is…a pyk than a pykerel [vr. pykrelle]…bet than old boef is…tendre veel [vrr. feelle, veell, vell].
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)275/9 : If his…bowels weren hote…he mai ete pork &…feel.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)429 : Take…vel, and hewe hit on gobettus, [etc.].
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)81 : Take faire brestes of vele…And roste hem.
- c1450 Yale 163 Cook.Recipes (Yale 163)54.53/1 : Take a kede [or] welle, chopyd, perboyled, & tryed; do hit yn a pott.
- (1454) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.491b : For a legge off ffele, 4 d.
- (1474) Stonor1.144 : For pouer men…vmbils to potage, sode beeff, rosted wele.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.28 : A sawce hit is For vele and venyson.
- (1484) Doc.Cely in ES 42 (PRO C.47/37 File 12, f.42)p.134 : Payd for a leyen of moton and a leyn of feyell.
- c1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)154/6 : Ete…euiry thyng þat is…moyst and cold…as veele with vynegyr.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)742/1 : Carnes vitule: veylle.
- a1500 Sln.521 Recipes (Sln 521)141/8 : For nedder…þat is crope into a mannys body: Take a fatte loyne of ueel and rost it.
b
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)47/22 : Þei eten but lytill…of flessch of veel.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)143 : It is ordeyned that non bocher…brynge in to…toun to sellyn carcaisys of beeff, of veel, ne of moton.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.93 : Now…is good castracioun Of litel veles.
- (1462) Doc.in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1313 : Hyt ys graunt…that no bowcher…by no kyd ne vele to syll agayn…apon the payn of forfetour of the sayd kyddys…and veles.
- (1466) Paston (Gairdner)4.229 : For purveying of all the velys, lambes…and polaly, xl d.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)244/27 : A man Sholde ette…flesh of Velis.
- -?-(1474) Ordin.Househ.Pr.Edw.32* : He is bounde to answere to my ladyes advantage, the valewe of all the hydes of oxen, veale-skynnes…and the tallowe of all theise at the ende of every moneth.
c
- c1429 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)2162 : The Jewes…Be the ydolatiers of the golden veel ware wele prefigurede.