Middle English Dictionary Entry
bukke-skin n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bukke-skin n. Also buk-, bukkes-, buskin. |
| Etymology | Cp. bukke & skin. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The hide of a male fallow deer; (b) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (1306) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.18 : Bukskyn.
- (1307) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.18 : Buckeskyn, bukkisskyn.
- (c1413) Acc.Hythe in Archaeol.Cant.10248 : Item pro uno correo vocato bokkeskyn empto..pro gradale.
- (1425-6) Red Paper Bk.Colchester49 : Many diverse hides..calvesskynnes, shepysskynnes, bukkysskynnes, doesskynnes.
- (1433) Will York in Sur.Soc.3031 : Unum dublett coopertum cum bukskynnes.
- (c1455) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 9119 : Itm. for a bagg of a bukskyn to ye messbuke, pris viii d.
- (1471) Will York in Sur.Soc.45188 : j tunicam de buskyns.
- (1474-5) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum19 : In j bukke skynne [L in pelle j dami] for the helynge of the grete missal, xxi d.
b
- (1274-5) Doc.in HMC Var.Col.7217 : Testibus..Waltero Bucskin.
- (1290) Close R.Edw.I93 : Roger Bukskyn.
- (1311) Let.Bk.Lond.D (Gldh LetBk D)150 : [Richard de Gravele, called] Bokskyn.
- (1316) Feudal Aids 3471 : Petrus Buxskyn.
- (c1328) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)4 : Ricardus Bokeskyn.