meritote
Middle English
Noun
meritote (uncountable)
- A children's game of swinging on ropes or similar until dizzy.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, line 662:
- What eylith you, some gay gerl, God it wote / Hath brought in you thus on the meritote.
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References
- meritot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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