SC - A Question about thriddendele

[Michael F. Gunter]

>At 10:07 AM -0400 9/21/98, Cindy Renfrow wrote:
>><snip>

Hello!  Someone posted the url of an online searchable *Free* OED
(http://pleth.princeton.edu/OED/oed.html)  This is what it has to say about
thriddendele:

Sorry, the cut & paste has erased the line breaks.  The url of this info
is: http://pleth.Princeton.EDU/cgi-bin/OED/oed-id?id=493538280 )

thirdendeal'thirdendeal.
Obs. Forms: 1 priddan d$BkM(J; 4 pridden-, 4-5
thridden-, 5 threden-, thredden-, thryden-, thyrdyn-, 6 thirdin-,
thyrden-, (thirding-, 7 thurron-), 6-8 thirden-; 4-5 -del, 5-7 -dele, 6
- -deale, deall, 7 -dell, 7-8 -deal; 4-6 (9 dial.) -dale. OE. (pone)
priddan d$BkM(J, accus. case of (se) pridda d$BkM(J

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
w$BkU(Jere to priddan d$BkM(Je; C. 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 120 Bewyl op priddan d$BkM(J;
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.


To confuse the matter further, not only does the word mean one-third part,
it is also a unit of liquid measure (3 pints), and a type of pot or vessel
(presumably holding 3 pints).

Cindy/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net

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