[Sca-cooks] Ok, not quite finished

steve montgomery aeduinofskye at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 18:00:46 PST 2012


It helps a lot. In the facsimile it looks more like pricket and not
pricked.  And the reminder of the OED on line.

aeduin

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Sam Wallace <guillaumedep at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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