Middle English Dictionary Entry
bōre n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | bōre n.(1) |
| Etymology | Cp. OI bora. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A boring, hole, perforation; (b) an aperture, opening, crevice; (c) anus; (d) not worth a ~, utterly worthless.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325(?c1300) NPass.(Cmb Gg.1.1)1328 : Bores þei mad moni þer inne..Nailes to driuen inne wel scharp.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)194 : Tru: bore [vr. hol].
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)416 : De sabiloun est fait true: with al make a bore.
- c1390 Chart.Abbey HG (Vrn)360 : Hit was to schort to þe hole þat þei hedden I-mad..and þei nolde not make a newe bore.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)97b/b : Þanne in þe myddel is a putte, as hit were þe bore of an hole.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Pilgr.(Phys-E)p.57 : Thar his members was bifore, Hauid he noht sithen bot a bore.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)44 : Bore or hole: Foramen.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.64/23 : Þabbot of Oseneye shall put in his locke on table..with iij borys or holys.
- c1475 Medit.Pass.(1) (Rwl C.285)113 : He was streekede opon þe croyce..and draghene out with rapis, to mak fote and hande accoord to þe boores þat mad war In þe tree.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)262/121 : Knyt thou a knott..ffor to draw this arme on lengthe Tyll it com to the bore.
b
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2539 : A sonne bem..Schon opon þe quen At a bore.
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)46/1022 : Water hi can stop, Þat hit ne mai nowt bi bores drop.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.8008 : But voide drede & manhod set a-fore, Þat cowardyse entre at no bore.
- a1450(1400) Eche man be war (Dgb 102)95 : God seeth thurgh euery bore.
- a1500 7 Sages(1) (Cmb Ff.2.38)210/1927 : Lo, seyde Ipocras, watur can stoppe, That þey schulde see be no bore oon droppe.
c
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)9/7 : Bot who that Ianglis any more, He must blaw my blak hoill bore, both behynd and before, Till his tethe blede.
d
- c1390 Mirror St.Edm.(2) (Vrn)311 : Þow seist hit is not worþ a Bore, So þat þin may seme þe more.