[Sca-cooks] Ok, not quite finished

Sam Wallace guillaumedep at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 13:00:09 PST 2012


Hello,

> <aeduinofskye at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sinettes. It is in a section talking about birds.
> Possibly cygnets (young swans).

This is correct. - Middle English Dictionary: S.7 By Robert E. Lewis
http://books.google.com/books?id=W50m1QMYtJ8C&pg=PA856

> Pricked and sorrel sister. Just after deer.

Sorell syster = A doe in her third year. A sorrel is a young buck in
the third year (http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50231229?query_type=misspelling&queryword=sorell&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=1tmH-S2uieX-5344&control_no=null&result_place=1).
A buck in its second year is a pricket
(http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50188427?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=Pricket&first=1&max_to_show=10).
In the same reference, a pricket's sister is defined as a female
fallow deer in its second year so a "sorell syster" would be a doe in
her third year.

I hope this helps,

Guillaume


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