Middle English Dictionary Entry
boteras(se n.
Entry Info
| Forms | boteras(se n. Also botras(se, buteras, butres; pl. boteraces, butterases, -essez, botraas, botras(se, butras. |
| Etymology | OF bouteret adj. & n., pl. bouterez; in part, with substitution of OF suffix -az, -as. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A buttress; (b) fig. a support, a prop; (c) ?an open gallery or portico along the side of a building.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)361 : An hundred tours þer were about..bataild stout; Þe butras com out of þe diche, Of rede gold yarched riche.
- (1344-5) in Hope Windsor C.121 : Reparancium Boteraces.
- (1393) Will York in Sur.Soc.4185 : I commend..my body to my graven in the mynster Garth befor the butres at the charnell.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)62a/a : Þe fleisch of þe leggis is Iset in þe ouer side wiþ inne as a piler oþir a botras, to holde vp þe weihte of þe body.
- (1421) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9958 : Pro tectura j butres super coquinam, 12 s. 4 d.
- (1426) Doc.in Morsbach Origurk.14 : A stepel, joyned to the cherche of Walbureswyk fornseid, With foure botraas.
- (1433) Agree.Troutbeck in Earwaker Hist.St.Mary31 : And iiij botras on the south side, with a grete arche in the weste ende.
- (1434) Indent.Fotheringhay in Med.Mason246 : Aither of the said [a]isles shal have six mighty botrasse of free-stone, clen-hewyn; and every botrasse fynisht with a fynial..the botrasse of the body shalbe more large..than the botrasse of the said qwere.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)45 : Boteras [Win: Boterasse] of a walle: Machinis, muripula, muripellus, fultura.
- (1442) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 7117 : For caryage of ye same stone for ye boteras.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1354 : In the est ende of the seide Quere shal be sette..ij butterases.
- (1449-50) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99238 : Lez butteressez veteris ecclesie Beate Marie Magd.
- (1458) Visit.St.Paul in Camd.n.s.55111 : Navis ecclesie patitur defectum in le boteras et fenistris.
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)1486 : Uppon a Rooche hit was groundyd and set, And euery Botras full of ymagery.
- a1500(1396) Indent.Francisc.in RS 4.1 (Vit F.12)521 : The boteras beyng atte the Sowth dore of the sayd Church.
b
- a1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)701 : Take hede To kepen Yrelond..For it is a boterasse and a poste Undre England, and Wales is another.
c
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ezek.41.15 : He mat the boteraces [L ethecas; WB(1): solers] on euer either side of an hundrid cubitis.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1409-10) in Salzman Building in Engl.()483 : And the same south eill sall haue thre boteras, yat is for to say, at eithir end of it a boteras, and a boteras in the syde betwix the tother twa.
Note: Additional quote(s)
- (1412) in Salzman Building in Engl.()488 : A windowe of twa lightes with a franche botras in the southwest cornere acordaunt to the botras beforesaide.
Note: New comb.: Fr. botras