Middle English Dictionary Entry
coket n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | coket n.(2) |
| Etymology | Prob. the same word as coket (1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Bread made of fine flour (second only to wastel); ~ lof, a loaf of such bread; (b) the weight of a standard loaf of coket.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1266) Statutes Realm1.199 : Panis de Coket de eodem blado & de eodem bultello ponderabit plusquam Wastellum de duobus solidis..Panis [integer de quadrante de frumento] ponderabit Coket & dimidium..Et panis de [omni blado] ponderabit duos Coketos. ]
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)7.292 : Ne no Beggere eten Bred þat Benes Inne coome, Bote Coket and Cler Matin, an of clene whete.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)173 : It is ordeyned that no baxter..make non wastell, symnell, ne the ferst coket, but ȝif it be a bultell of Reynes, ne the secounde cokett, but it be a bultell of beuker..and that he use non other bultell for wastell, symnell, ne for cokett than is seid aforn.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)26b : Cokett: quidam panis, effungia.
- a1486 Assize Bread in Archaeol.57 (Mrg M 775)59 : A ferthinge loof of Coket of the same corne and of the same buschell schal weye more than the wastell bi ij s.
- a1525(?1421) Cov.Leet Bk.23 : We commaunde ȝou..þat euery Baxster that bakethe to sale..sell iiij wastels for a peny, and ij for a peny, and iiij cokett louys for a peny, & ij for a peny and no less.
b
- a1325 *Rwl.Statutes [OD col.] (Rwl B.520)lf.43b : Of al hol bred þe furþingwort sal weie a Coket ant an half.
- a1486 Assize Bread in Archaeol.57 (Mrg M 775)59 : The loof of all corne schal weye two coketes.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)103/16 : Take clere hony and rye-flour and medle it wele to-gedere and bake þere a koket.
Note: New spelling: Also..koket.--per MJW
Note: However, based on the evidence in other words beginning with c- or k- (followed by a back vowel) such as cok n.(1), it seems the MED does not note the k- forms.--per MLL
Note: Belongs to sense (a)., where it is needed for date.--per MLL