Middle English Dictionary Entry
cǒuching ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | cǒuching ger. Also coching, cuching. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Lying in bed; couchinges abed, fornication, lechery; (b) laying down; the piling up or laying in position of stone or tile.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400 Bible SNT(1) (Selw 108 L.1)Rom.13.13 : Walke we honestlyche..ne in dronkenesse, ne in kouchynges abedde [L cubilibus; WB(1): couchis].
b
- (1371) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3510 : Carectatis lapidum emptis cum cuchyngs et cariagio in le brek.
- c1400 *Chaucer Astr.(Brussels 4869)[2.29] 92b : So that thow wirke softely & avisely in the kowchynge.
- (1420) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2326 : Item pro beryng et kochyng de tegulis.
- (1425) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.158/557 : To Robert Cook for þe couchynge of þe stones yn þe litell celer.
- (1432) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)211/13 : Item paie a laborersz pur serchyng off grondys and cowchyng vp of stone off the same grounde.
- (1485-86) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.32156 : Paid..for..cowching of the stones in the chirch yard.