SC - thriddendele-more readable

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/21/98 5:34:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mfgunter at fnc.fujitsu.com writes:

<< http://pleth.Princeton.EDU/cgi-bin/OED/oed-id?id=493538280 >>

Cindy, the info you sent was fascinating. Hope you don't mind that I',m
reposting it in a more readable form. :-)

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thirdendeal

'thirdendeal. Obs. Forms: 1 priddan dæl; 4 pridden-, 4-5 thridden-, 5
threden-, thredden-, thryden-, thyrdyn-, 6 thirdin-, thyrden-, (thirding-, 7
thurron-), 6-8 thirden-; 4-5 -del, 5-7 -dele, 6 -deale, deall, 7 -dell, 7-8
- -deal; 4-6 (9 dial.) -dale. OE. (pone) priddan dæl, accus. case of (se) pridda
dæl the third part (see thirdel, deal sb.1, dale2). Cf. halfendeal,
farthingdeal.

1. The third part of anything; a third.

•C. 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 98 Seope on wætere to priddan dæle; 

•C. 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 120 Bewyl op priddan dæl; 

•13.. Guy Warw. (A.) 7306 + st. 65 Thriddendel his lond haue he schold. 

•14.. E.E. Misc. (Warton Cl.) 72 With the thyrdyndele of gume, and twyse so
mych of water. 

•A. 1500 in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 147 Euery Sonday a soule out of purgatory
and the thredden dele of al synnes releced. 

•1558 Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. i. i. (1580) 37 b, Drinke thereof two
thirdendales of a glassefull. 

•1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 459 b, A thyrdendeale of the Crowne of
Thornes is shewed at Paris in the Holy Chappell there.


2. A third of a tun; = tertian B. 2.

•1423 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 256/1 Thredendels and hoggeshedes so aftur lesse
mesure. 

•14.. MS. Cantab. Ff. 5. 48, lf. 55 b (Hartshorne Anc. Metr. T. (1829) 54),
Hit holdis a gode thrydendele Ful of wyne euery mele.

3. (See quots.)

•1571 in Shaks. Jahrbuch (1896) 142 The hooped pot commonly called a
thirdindeale and a half thirdindeale. 

•1590 [Tarlton] News Purgat. (1844) 114 When Tapsters..Fill thirdingdeall pots
till the drinke run ouer. 
•1620 Melton Astrolog. 32 Many of them dare not goe to bed without a
Thurrondell Pot of six shillings Beere. 

•1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Thirdendeal, a Liquid Measure used in Salisbury
containing three Pints. 

•1721 in Bailey. 

Ras

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