Middle English Dictionary Entry
brike n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | brike n.(1) Also brik(ke & brẹ̄ke, breek. |
| Etymology | MDu. bricke (whence also F brique). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Brick as building material; (b) a brick; -- pl. often uninflected.
Associated quotations
a
- (1427) *For.Acc.(PRO) 5 Hen.VI A [OD col.] : Waltile, vocato Breek.
- (c1428) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)167/9 : Flaundrissh bryke, with Wharuage, Freight, and cariage.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.197 : Now brik [L lateres] is maad of white erthe..Or cley.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1367 : Chalke, Bryke, ne Reygate stone.
- (1466) *Plea & Mem.R.Lond.GildhA 87.m.4d : Breke vpp the Tuwell..that they hadd stopped vpp with brike, lyme, and sand.
- (1467) Ordin.Wor.372 : That no chimneys of tre..be suffred withyn the cyte, but that the owners make hem of bryke or stone.
b
- (1416-17) Stonor1.30 : [200, 000] de Brykes.
- (1427-8) Rec.St.Mary at Hill69 : For a hondred brek to þe same dore vj d.
- (1446) Acc.Bk.Carpenter Co.12 : For ij ml. Breke xij s.
- c1453(c1437) Brut-1436 (Hrl 53)579/28 : vj old shippes..lade with hard ston, chalke, and brekes.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1508 : If the lond solute be, not herfore Turf like a brik to make of.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57210 : viij c bryke, prise le C, vj d.
- -?-(1475) in Page Vic.Hist.Herts.4 ()265 : Tiles called Breks.
2.
~ brennere (makere), one who makes bricks; ~ kilne, an oven or furnace for baking bricks; ~ leiere (man, masoun), bricklayer; ~ ston, a brick; ~ wal, a wall made of brick.
Associated quotations
- (1423) Doc.in Dugdale Monasticon 3166/1 : Johannem Arnold et Hermannum Remond, brekebrennerys.
- (c1435) MSS Penshurst in HMC213 : Brekemasons.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.379 : Thi wallis bricke [L gloss.: mures latericios] with bricke me most corone.
- (c1440) MSS Penshurst in HMC215 : Baldwin, Brekemeker, for making Waltyle.
- (1442) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1385 : Making of a breke kylne..for making of the brike kilne.
- (1443-4) in Tighe & Davis Windsor1.337 : [Robert Chirche] Brekelayeer.
- (1444-6) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)288/5 : Paid to masons, brikmen, and laborers for owr Warkis.
- c1453(c1437) Brut-1436 (Hrl 53)579/37 : Al þe brekstones were gyven to Saynt Mary Chirch.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57301 : The breke maker.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57565 : The brykke kellen.
- (1465-6) *Plea & Mem.R.Lond.GildhA 87.m.5 : A brikwall closyng in the Chapell.
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)18/44 : Þis cyte was..by þe Romanys enviround abowte with bryke wallis [Trev.: walles of brent tile].
- 1477-9 *Acc.Exch.K.R.496 No.18 [OD col.] : Breke kylne.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1340) in Salzman Building in Engl.142 : [A stair built in] petris et brikis [at Windsor].
Note: Quot. antedates sense 1.(a).
Note: ?brikis is probably Latin. DMLBS has entry brika with single quot., which is probably this one, although date given is 1440: "circa facturam le steyre..et viam juxta le dongeon, ut in muris, petris et ~is." Latham has brika, dated 1340, undoubtedly a reference to this quot.
- (1430) in Salzman Building in Engl.142 : [John Arnold..made a contract..for] lateres vocatos le brike.
Note: Additional quot. for sense 1.(a).
- (1483) in Salzman Building in Engl.142 : [Among the] brekelayers [we find..Turkyn Horwynde].
Note: Quot. postdates sense 2..
- (1418) in Salzman Building in Engl.142 : [Henry Sondergyltes] brykeman [employed by the Wardens of London Bridge..[to make] bryktill [at Deptford].
Note: New compound for sense 2.: ~ tile, coll. bricks.
- (1468) in Salzman Building in Engl.144 : [A type of brick] called Whitebrek.
Note: New compound for sense 2.: whit ~ [see whit adj., 4a.(e)].
- (1430) in Salzman Building in Engl.142 : [John Arnold and Hermann Reynold] brekebrennerys.
- (1442) in Salzman Building in Engl.142 : [William Weysy..was commissioned to impress] brikeleggers [for the work at Eton].
- (1468) in Salzman Building in Engl.144 : [Mention at Calais..of] brekstones.
Note: Additional quots. for sense 2.
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section may be incomplete and / or may need revision to accord with standards of later volumes of the MED.--notes per MLL