Middle English Dictionary Entry
carpentrīe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | carpentrīe n. Also carpentarie, carpentre. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. CF charpenterie. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The art or craft of carpentry; the occupation of a carpenter; ~ craft; (b) something done or made by carpenters, carpenter's work; ~ werk; (c) the carpenters attached to a Roman legion.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.178 : I contreued toles Of carpentrie [vr. capentrie].
- c1410 Chaucer CT.Rv.(Hrl 7334)A.3861 : He was of Carpentrye craft.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.982 : Þe riche eban..most is able..With stoon to Ioyne by craft of carpentrie.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.29/18 : The crafte of carpentrye yn the same chirche, and yn the Cite of Londone, he excercised, as it hadde be taught hym.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)68 : Joseph worchynge in his craft of carpuntrie.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)50 : He schulde vnresonabili..aske, if he askid of a treuthe in masonry, where it is groundid in carpentrie.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)49/22 : Craft also is departid into many braunchis..as into carpentrie, taylourie, masonrie.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)53/6 : Þer is carpentrie craft dyuerse fro masonrie.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)7/27 : A symple and a litil leerned man in carpentrie kanne..fynde a defaute in a kingis palice.
b
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ex.35.33 : To make the werk in gold and siluer and brasse, and in stonus to ben graued, and in carpentarye werk [WB(2): werk of carpentrie]..he hath tauȝte with wisdom, that thei maken the werkis of carpentarye.
- (1425) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.147/219 : Robert Smyth dede paie..for to departe þe hous yn diuerse Chambres, as for masonrie, Carpentrie, and dawbyng of diuerse walles.
- (1425) Doc.in Bk.Lond.E.229/28 : The seid William Addescomp shall fynde to the seid edificacions only the handewerk of Carpentre.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)407 : Pol, of carpentrye: Capitellum.
- (1446-8) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)290/25 : For costes of irenwerk and carpentrie.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 28 : Yef the seides John Veyse and Thomas Sturgeon..make or do for to be made..an hovse with in the seid college as in werk of carpentre.
c
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)35b : And þe principal heed o[r] þe rewelour of þis meyne was þe prefecte or þe meyr of þe carpuntry [vr. carpunters].