Middle English Dictionary Entry
wā̆teling ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | wā̆teling ger. Also watteling, watling. |
| Etymology | From wā̆telen v.; also cp. wā̆tel n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The action or process of building or supplying a structure with wattle; also, sticks, rods, etc. suitable for use in wattlework; ~ roddes;
(b) an ornamental construction built so as to resemble wattlework, a decorative lattice.
Associated quotations
a
- (1371-2) Doc.Manor in MP 3459 : Watlyng.
- (1431-40) Acc.St.Michael Bishop's Stortford8 : In virgis emptis pro watlyng, sprendelles, et ligaminibus, x d. ob.
- a1450 Forest Laws (Dc 335)241 : Smal wode, that is to wete, blatrous, sparres, watlyng-roddes, or ony other smal wode.
- (1457-8) Bk.St.Mary Fountains in Sur.Soc.13093 : In ij foder Watlyng…xij d.
- (1459-60) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9988 : Pro tectura straminea, le Watlyng et sparryng unius domus…3 s. 4 d.
- (1500) in Salzman Building in Engl.189 : [For repairs to some farm buildings…we have 3 s. 4 d. paid] for viij new sparres and for wattelyng of the same housis.
b
- (?1468) Doc.in Bentley Excerpta Hist.237 : The table accomplisshid as ensueth’: xxxti taragges and every taragge a tre of golde…watelid wt gold, wt in the watelyng a boute the sayd tre and everyche of hem fillid wt meetes.