Middle English Dictionary Entry
musket(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | musket(e n. Also muskette, muskite, muskitte, muscete, moskette. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. CF moschet. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The sparrow hawk; (b) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)143b/a : It semeþ þat alietus and a litil sperhauk is al one þat is I-clepid muskete in frensche or ellis hit hiȝte þe sperhauk.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)641/14 : Capus: muskett.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)349 : Muskytte, byrde: Capus.
- a1475 Herkyn to my tale (Brog 2.1)p.85 : Ther was alle that I rekon up one this a-ray..Moskettus [vr. Muscetes] in mortrous, caudrons and ladyls.
- a1500 As I went in (BodPoet e.1)p.248 : I asked that byrd what sche ment. 'I am a musket bothe fayer and gent; For dred of deth I am al schent.'
- a1500 When nettuls (BodPoet e.1)p.270 : Whan hantlopes sermovntes eglys in flyght..And musketes mak vergese of crabbes sower..Than put women in trust and confydens.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)761/6 : Capus: a muskyte.
b
- (?1208-13) Bk.of Fees630 : Willelmus Musket.
- (1275) Hundred R.Tower 1193 : Radulpho Musket.
- (1279) Hundred R.Tower 2417 : Robertus Musket.
- -?-(1313) Reg.Freemen York in Sur.Soc.9615 : Petrus Musket, aguiler.
- (1327) Sub.R.Som.in Som.RS 3224 : Johanne Musket.