Middle English Dictionary Entry
gōde n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gōde n. Also gāde, gohode, goude, gwode. Pl. gōdes, (early) gādien. |
| Etymology | OE gād |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A pointed rod for driving oxen, etc., a goad; also, a sharp metal spike of any sort; (b) a linear measure, the length of a goad.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)541/1 : Stimulus: gode.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)547 : A swiðe wunderlich hweol..wið irnene gadien kene to keoruen.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1922 : Let þurhdriuen þrefter þe spaken & te felien mid irnene gadien.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)896 : La aguilloun: gode.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)862 : Fuet et agiloun, Gode and prikke.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)273b/a : An Oxeherde..prikkiþ þe slowe wiþ a gode.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)29 : Þe cartere haþ hys whyppe, But þe plowmen þe gode berud.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ecclus.38.26 : He that hath glorie in a gohode [L in iaculo] dryueth oxis with a pricke.
- ?a1425 WBible(2) Gloss.Judg.(Cld E.2)3.31 : With a schar, in Ebrew it is, with a goode of oxe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)184 : Gad, or gode [Win: Gaade, or goode]: Gerusa, scutica.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)586/23 : Gerusa, anglice, a goode, vel anglice, a Gesarme.
- a1456 Of alle þe craftes (Add 16165)p.37 : Þe dryver hade a goode, at whichche I loughe.
- a1475 Herkyn to my tale (Brog 2.1)86 : The hare come with a long goude [vr. gwode], drywyng the harrous.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)21/27 : Hit is hard to the for to wynse aȝeyn the scharpe goode.
b
- 1391 *Anc.Deed (PRO) A.1413 [OD col.] : Septem godes prati subtus le olde Orcharde.
- (1467) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.615 : Item vc goodes frise Wallie in dictis vi fardellis.
- (1481) Acc.Howard in RC 6117 : My Lord schal have of hym iiij c goodes of white..for every goode, ix d.
- a1500 Weights in RHS ser.3.41 (Vsp E.9)14 : And odyr dyuers places in this land thai mete grownd by the Polys, Goodys, and Roddys; and sum of thame be of xviij fote, sum of xx fote, and sum of xxi fote.