Middle English Dictionary Entry
wā̆tel n.
Entry Info
Forms | wā̆tel n. Also watele, wattel, watil, wattil(le, watul. |
Etymology | OE watel, watul. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Rods, branches, sticks, and twigs collected for the purpose of constructing walls, wattle;—often pl.; also, secured and interwoven branches and twigs considered as a construction material or structural element; a wall or other structure made of such material;
(b) ?a basket made of wattle; ?error for walet n.;
(c) ~ silver, a customary rent;
(d) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (1344-5) Acc.R.Priory HTrin.Dub.(DubPRO)60 : Cuidam homini colligenti watul pro eodem, i d.
- (1373-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103580 : Cuidam homini querenti Watteles in parco…pro una domo…12 d.
- (?c1410) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99226 : In le char eidem tectori pro quinque diebus…pro wattyls.
- (1423-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99271 : Pro sprittis, wattillis, doubyngstoures; pro ligatur’ pro hostio vocato trapdure…4 d.
- (1430) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2441 : De ij s. vj d. solutis pro virgis emptis ad faciendum unum Watele.
- (1435) in Salzman Building in Engl.188 : [At Bath we have…a straw-man (stipulator) and his mate making a] watyll [for a house].
- (1454) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99150 : j fothr’ de palis et virgis et j fothr’ del wattylle.
- (1454-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99191 : In adquisicione unius plaustrati de le watyls pro domo…4 d.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)136b : A Wattyll: Nela [?read: Rela].
b
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)11.269 : Ther nys squier ne knyght…That he nel bowe to þat bonde…And wedden hure for hure welthe and wisshen on þe morwe That hus wyf were wex oþer a watel [vr. walet] ful of nobles.
c
- (1262-3) Inquis.PM Hen.III173 : Watelselver, 5 s.; the Middelhundred 15 s. 4 d. wodelode; and other rents.
- (1271) Inquis.PM Hen.III in Archaeol.Cant.6241 : [That there pertains to the said manor a custom called] Watelseluer [worth per annum 5 s.].
- (1396) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)5.209 : [2 acres of land…she held of the said prior and convent…by fealty…and a yearly rent of 2 s. at St. Peter’s Chains for a custom called] Watelselvir.
d
- (1207) Fine R.King John392 : Petrus de Wattel.