Middle English Dictionary Entry
vesselling(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | vesselling(e n. Also vesselinge. |
| Etymology | From vessel n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Coll.
(a) Containers;
(b) ships or boats.
Associated quotations
a
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.410 : The graynes…When they beth cold, in picched vessellynge [L vasculis] And cleyed, close hem vp.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)11.110 : But first with water warm is to bisprynge The chanels of this oil & vesselynge [L reciptacula].
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2358 : Kest watre salt in vesselling that sprede; Salt wil the sonne it make.
b
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1465 : On empti vesselling ley mony a tabil; Fro lond to lond a brigge is made anoon.