Middle English Dictionary Entry
carīing ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | carīing ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act of carrying; carting, hauling; (b) carrying away, robbery; (c) bringing in of hay, harvest; (d) a game; (e) hawk. flying off with the prey after it has been taken.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.875 : He shoop hym for to swynke In cariyng of the gold out of that place.
- (1403) Will York in Sur.Soc.4327 : Petri Ebor. caryyng unius shipfull petrarum per aquam.
- (1417) J.Dernell in Nrf.Archaeol.15135 : Item, a bothe carying to yo Feyr, xij d.
- (1423) Acc.Hollingbourne in Archaeol.Cant.13561 : Payd for Caryyng of the Schretherris, Evyslathe, lathe and tyle.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.45.19 : Comaunde also that thei taken the waynes of Egipte to the kariyng of her children.
- (1428-9) Rec.St.Mary at Hill70 : Also pay for caryeng of ij lodes donge, viij d.
- (1439) Acc.Bk.Carpenter Co.3 : For ye caryinge of ij dressing bordis.
- (1449) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 873 : For the kary'g of the tymbyr from schylton hedyr.
- (1454-5) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15158 : Item, to the raker for caryeng a way of the churche dust, iiij d.
- (1461-2) Acc.Yatton in Som.RS 4102 : To the caryng of the stonys, iij s. x d.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57566 : For caryinge of iiij lode cley.
- (1474) Acc.St.John Peterb.in Antiq.51468 : Payd for caryyng of j carthfull of wode.
b
- (1450) RParl.5.200b : Of the whiche takynges, ledynges and carienges, ther is in that parties noo dewe punysshment.
c
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)458/23 : Þe same Iohn shold have fre entre..after the first heye and the seconde careatum or cariyng.
d
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)11624 : To spende al the day..In karyyng & in Iogolory.
e
- a1475 *Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)27b : And tey þi lyne to þe grownd for caryyng, And geder Awey all þat þu mayst hyr tayle & hyr wyngys, And lat hir hete commlage & gabage All þe whyle þat sche wyll hete.