Middle English Dictionary Entry
cacche n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cacche n. Also catche, keche. |
| Etymology | From cacchen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Device on a doorframe into which the latch fits, a catch; (b) a trap; mous ~, mousetrap; (c) a small ship, esp., a fishing vessel; a ketch.
Associated quotations
a
- 1399 *Acc.Exch.K.R.473/11.m.3 [OD col.] : Pro..xij lacchis, vj kacchis, v crampons.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.155/454 : Item, for j latche, j catche, j crampe, to þe forseide dore.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.175/1076 : For ij latches, ij kacches.
- (1454) Grocer Lond.in EGSt.(1948)93 : Item paye for latchis, catchis, and cramponis for the kechyn windowes and doores.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Wisd.14.11 : The creaturis of God in to hate ben mad..and in to a mouscacche [WB(2): trappe; L muscipulam] to the feet of vnwise men.
c
- 1371-2 Acc.St.Leonard Hosp.in Sur.Soc.35339 : Pro..j hausour et j stay pro le cachs, 5 s. 4 d. Diversis hominibus auxiliantibus quandam naviculam Hospitalis vocatam le cache ad aquam tractandam, 4 d.
- (1419) *Pat.R.Hen.V [OD col.]6 Hen.V m.10 : De quolibet batello, hodilcoge et cache cum turbis, calce et sperstone.
- (1422) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.128/208 : Cacches þat comen with oystrez and fissh and other diuerse thynges layn her ropes on land.
- (1422) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.129/238 : Cacches han layne with oistres ij dayes.
- (1423) Will York in Sur.Soc.4581 : Pro j barge veteri..pro j cache veteri et multum debili.
- (1443-6) Doc.Blk.Bk.Admir.in RS 55.1262 : Navem Johannis Moriff..vocatam le Heeke sive Flewere, alias a Catche.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57473 : Item, to axe of my lord of Duram in yifte the kache of Hangeford.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1359) Doc.Beverley in Seld.Soc.142 : De qualibet magna cach portante dolia, cimas, blada et hujusmodi, per annum, vj d.
Note: New form: Also..cach.
Note: Quot. antedates sense (c).
- (1412) Doc.Beverley in Seld.Soc.1424 : Ordinatum est..quelibet navis dicta cache, discartata ultra pontes ad Torrentem cum thak, stramine, terricidiis, feno, sand, fagottis, solvat ad mundacionem loci fori ibidem obolum.
Note: Additional quot. for sense (c)
Note: Note that the AND entry cache n.(2) (meaning 'latch, catch') may provide an additional etymon for cacche n.
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. (Note, as one example, the singular form cachs in the first quot. in sense (c).)--notes per MLL