pocket
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Searchable Lemmata: poket (AF), pachette (AF), poced (W), poket (ME), pokettus (L), poketta (L), poket (OScots), pocket (MdE).
Alternate Forms: pokettum, pokettos, poketis, pokeito, puchica, pugicam, pokets, poketes, pokettes, pockettis, pachettes.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Accessory;
small sack, bag or pouch. A small bag or pouch worn on the body; a money pouch or bag. (From the Early Modern period, a pouch sewn into or on a garment. Note, integral pockets were not part of medieval dress.) In specific technical and legal uses (esp. post 1350), a poke or half-sack of wool.(ante 1280 still in current use)
5. [187] ... The which clothes be in trusse or in pakke or in fardel, boundyn or unboundyn ... [189] ... Of every last of wulle that comyth to oon merchaunt alone, viij d.. And 3if that it be lasse, be takyn of every sak iiij d.; and of every poket [ID(1): pokete], iiij d. ... [191] ... Of eche ml. of qwit of grene [ID(1): de blaunkes de veyr], ij s.; of half a ml., xij d., And 3if ther be lasse thanne half a ml., thanne be takyn of eche tymbur iiij d. ... Eche c. of lambrys skynnys, bogee, conyns, foxis, cattyn, and of alle other maner skynnes passyng out of the lond
Legal.
[MED Ipswich Domesday(2) ((Add 25011) 187-191) circa 1436]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
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2(n.)
Accessory;
a hanging sleeve ME cf. poke(circa 1450)
Sex: Male Use: Secular Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Speculative, Derived from poke + -et (diminuative ending)? / from OF? Cf. Central French pochet.
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