Middle English Dictionary Entry
cariē̆r n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cariē̆r n. Also cariar, cariour. |
| Etymology | From carien v.; also, AF cariour. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A carrier, a carter, a bearer of letters; comune ~, a public carrier; (b) one of the carriers for an army; (c) something which directs or guides.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1332) Sub.R.Lan.in LCRS 31.216 : Rogerus le Cariour. ]
- [ (1353) Statutes Realm1.335 : Et eit chescun cariour retournant de lestaple une bille. ]
- (a1395) Acc.Savoy in Archaeol.24310 : De cccxxiiij lodes meremii..Et sic deficiunt ij lod. xij ped. unde regula le scorer et le carier.
- (1399) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3515 : Et in..sabuli cariatis per Hugonem Carior..9 s.
- (c1439) *Proc.Chanc.PRO ser.C 1 file 9no.124 : William dyd send þe seid clothe before hym with Cariers vnto Oxenford.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)62 : Caryare: Vector, vectitor.
- (1447-8) Shillingford23 : He woll ascuse hym right well by thike fals harlot, his carioure, and the carioure yn like wise by the seide Germyn.
- (1459) Doc.Oxf.in OHS 70245 : Alle common caryers, bryngers of scolers to the Uniuersite or their money, letter, or eny especiall message to eny scoler or clerk.
- (1465) Paston (Gairdner)4.169 : Your gesseren..shall be send hom by the next caryours.
- (1465) Paston (Gairdner)4.174 : The berer of this letter is a comon carier, and was at Norwich.
- (1476) Stonor2.16 : That hyt mythe be sent downe by the caryar.
- -?-(1424) Reg.Freemen York in Sur.Soc.96134 : Johannes Buteler, caryour.
b
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1390 : Herfore helmettis wight A fewe vppon the cariours were dight.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)64b/b : A veyne is beryere and cariere of blood.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)123 : An aungel..may so joyne hym silf to a body forto be of þe body oonly a mover and a carier fro place to place.