Middle English Dictionary Entry
wā̆ter-sīde n.
Entry Info
| Forms | wā̆ter-sīde n. Also waterseid, watturside. |
| Etymology | From wā̆ter n. & sīde n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The bank, edge, or side of a body of water; also, the waterfront;
(b) as place name.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)6249 : Moyses, þu take þat wand…And do þe to þe water side.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4288 : Alisaunder dooþ cryen wyde; His loges setten on þe water-syde.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)129 : The medewe…Beet right on the watir syde.
- (1441) Proc.Privy C.5.162 : Þei…may propose hem to gete or noye þe townes & portz of Harflew Cane Hounflew & oþer places & portz on þe water syde.
- (1442) RParl.5.54b : Deputees and Ministres…occupieth to here owne use diverse Wharves and Keyes beyng by the water sides, where commune discharge of diverse Merchaundises is hadde, in diverse Portes of this youre Roialme.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1356 : The south wal…shal extende…vnto the Est ende of the gardines efterlong the water side…with a large dore in the same wal to the water side.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1399 : Item, in monee assigned for Coles for the forge, Ropes, Barowes, gynnes…And othere diuerse thynges for the seid werkes necessarie with cariage of the seid stuffes fro the water seid ther…xxx li.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)55.227 : Sone thanne vppon A watyr side A Castel he ordeyned.
- a1450 Agnus Castus (Roy 18.A.6)180/24 : Watyr sydus [Stock: Wylde mynte…wele growyn on bankys by wattrys].
- c1450(c1425) Brut-1419 (Cmb Kk.1.12)388/10 : Ser Philippe Leiche…was logged betwene þe watir of Sayne and þe abbey…And þe Baron of Carew on þe watir syde to kepe þe passage.
- c1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)1310 : In þat lande commeth neuer rain; Therfor alle men þat there abide Dwellith alonge vppon þe water side.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)6866 : So casuely to se the flode the whene come to the water-syde.
- a1500 Siege Jerus.(2) (Brog 2.1)91/632 : Thay put hyme into þe barreylle and lade hyme into a dyslate place by a wattur syde.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)13466 : Pelleus…Oft went þat wegh to the water syde, The Sea for to serche.
b
- (c1470) Stonor1.108 : Payed when my seyde master and mastresse went to Cawyrsame for drynkyng at watter syde, iij d.