Middle English Dictionary Entry
bullok n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bullok n. Also bol(l)ok. |
| Etymology | OE bulluc |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. bole bull.
1.
(a) Bull calf; steer; (b) ~ herde, ~ man, a keeper of bullocks or steers;--also in names; bullok(es hide; ~ hous; (c) in names [see also Smith PNElem. 1.57].
Associated quotations
a
- a1300 Svmer is icumen (Hrl 978)8 : Awe bleteþ after lomb..Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ.
- c1300 SLeg.Jas.(LdMisc 108)182 : Þe Bollokes and þe ȝoungue steores þat weren er so wilde..huy woxen tame.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)203 : Of eche carcays of beeff, as of oxe, kowe, bullok [F bouete], and hefker.
- (1455) Paston (Gairdner)3.39 : Howard was as wode as a wilde bullok.
- (1468) Acc.Howard in RC 57516 : My master paid to Waneshed for xxv bullokkes, of small and gret, the price of a pece, xij s. x d.
b
- (1281) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms60 : Ric. le Bollocherd.
- (1327) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms60 : Joh. le Bollochurde.
- (1330) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms60 : Joh. Bullokhirde.
- (1332) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms60 : Rog. Bullokman.
- (1367) Close R.Edw.III395 : Bullochous.
- (1463) Acc.Howard in RC 57192 : Every bolokys hyde and netys hyde and oxhe hyde.
- (1464) Acc.Howard in RC 57543 : Receyvid of John Doket for a boloke hyde xij d.
c
- (1167) in Pipe R.Soc.1110 : Osemundus Bulloc.
- (1291) Feet Fines Oxf.in ORS 12228 : Adam Bullok.
- (1332) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 10266 : Pet. Bulluk.
- (1428) Feudal Aids 137 : Robertus Bullok.
2.
A male deer in its second year.
Associated quotations
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)17 : Þe deere..þe first yere þat þei ben calfed þei ben called a Calf, þe secounde yeer a bulloke..þe iii yere a broket.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1391) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)5.167 : [A building containing a stable and] bollokhous [was damaged during the keepership of Robert Power].
Note: Needed for date in sense (b).
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section is incomplete and needs revision to accord with standards of later volumes of the MED. Provisional revised form section: Also bulloke, boloke, (in names) bulluk, bolloc- & (early) bulluc; pl. bullokkes, bollokes.--notes per MLL