Middle English Dictionary Entry
virel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | virel n. Also virille, virol(le, virole, verel(le, wirole, werille, (error) vyrolfe; pl. viroles, verolis. |
| Etymology | OF virol, AF virel & OF virole, virolle, virelle, (15th cent.) verrole; also cp. ML virola, AL virolla, virella, virula, vars. of L viriola. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A ring, band, or cap, usu. of metal, put around the end of a piece of wood, the handle of an implement, etc., a ferrule;
(b) a metal pivot on the projecting end of an axle on a crane, windlass, etc.;
(c) ~ of the ars, the anus or sphincter.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)117 : Virole: a wyrole of a knyf.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)663/40 : Cultellus: knyfe…sperula: werylle.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)510 : Vyrolfe [KC: virol] of a knyfe: Spirula.
- 1468 *Medulla (StJ-C C.22)110a/b : Tolus: the bolle of a stepyl or the verel or the pomel off a knyff [Cnt: a bolle or a toppe or els a rownde vyrolle].
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)133a : A Verelle of A knyffe: Spirula vel virula.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)133b : A Vyrell of A knyfe: Spirula.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)735/18 : Spirula: a vyrille.
- a1500 *Medulla (Hrl 2270)95b/a : Spira…a Virole.
b
- (1411) Fabric R.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.15186 : [Item paid for 8 lb. of iron made in] verolys [and] goionys [for the crane].
- (1426-7) Rec.Norwich 265 : [For the plates under the] cappestan [and for] vyroles [and a] gogeon [of iron].
c
- c1480 *Medulla (Pep 2002)185b : Podex: a endgut uel virell of þe eres.