lymail
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See lemel.
Noun[edit]
lymail
- metal filings, lemel
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, Harleian ms. 7334; republised and transcribed in Frederick J. Furnivall (editor), The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, 1885, →OCLC, page 568, lines 1266–1269:
- in þende of which an vnce and no more / Of siluer lymail put was as bifore / was in his cole and stopped wiþ wex wel / For to kepe in his limail euery del
- In the end of which an ounce (and no more) / Of silver filings were placed, just as / had previously been in his coal, and [the vessel] was stopped well with wax / To keep the filings in completely
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, Harleian ms. 7334; republised and transcribed in Frederick J. Furnivall (editor), The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, 1885, →OCLC, page 568, lines 1266–1269: