Middle English Dictionary Entry
brimming ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | brimming ger. Also breming. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Of swine: the state of being in heat or in rut; ~ love; ~ time, rutting season.
Associated quotations
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)27 : [Wild boars] goon in heere loue to þe bremyng, as sowes don, about þe fest of Seynt Andrew tyde and [be] in here bremyng loue [F dure en leur grand chaleur] iii wekes.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)28 : The sowes byn in her seson fro þe bremyng tyme..in to þe tyme þat þei han farowed.
- a1525(?1474) Cov.Leet Bk.398 : Þat he sle..no sowe þat is a brymmyng nor grete with pygges.