Middle English Dictionary Entry
but(t(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | but(t(e n.(1) Also bot(t, buyt. |
| Etymology | OF bot(t)e, boute cask; ML butta. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A wine cask; a cask of wine; (b) a cask for other commodities; a barrel of dates, salmon, etc.; (c) a cask or vat used by cloth-makers.
Associated quotations
a
- (1385) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.57 : [6] botes [of Greek wine].
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52208/15 : Item, pro ij butts vini de Trevyso.
- (1397) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.57 : [One] but [of Romeney or of Malvesey].
- (1399-1400) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103601 : Item, in 1 buyt de Rumnay..27 s.
- (1418) Let.War France in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)76/48 : We lowely send..Tritty botes of swete wyne, that is to seye ten of Tyre, ten of Romeney, ten of Maluesey.
- (1419) Let.Bk.in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)99/7 : Bothe englisshmen & Aliens..vsyn within þis Citee þair wyne of spayne..and vnthrifty wynes of oþer Contrees, whan þei are feblyd in colour & noght in value, to put yn diuers buttys and oþir vessels þat are here rasyd and gummyd with picche.
- (1458-9) *Plea & Mem.R.Lond.GildhA.83.m.7d : To his owne vse and behove for xxixti buttes of rede romeney.
- a1500 Brut-1431(2) (Rwl B.173)453/27 : In the same yere were founde many false vessels of Romeney..into the nombre of vj buttes.
b
- (c1421) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.457 : ciii doliis in buttis et pipis, vacuis et ruptis.
- (1423) RParl.4.256a : And buttes of Samon..shulden be of certein mesure; that is to sey..the but of Samon, [84] Galons full pakked.
- (1467) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.613 : Item, pro ii butts datys.
- (1481-90) Acc.Howard in RC 57120 : xv buttes Schrempes.
c
- a1525(?1472) Cov.Leet Bk.375 : Þat no persone..brek vp..a close of þe same priours..stretchyng after þe lane ledyng to þe drapers buttes.