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▪ I. dene, n.1|diːn|
Another spelling of dean n.2, a (wooded) vale.
▪ II. dene, n.2|diːn|
Also den, deine, deane.
[Of uncertain derivation.
The sense seems to make it distinct from dene, dean2, and suggests affinity to LG. düne (now also mod.Ger.), E. Fris. and N. Fris. düne, dün, Du. duin, sand-hill on the coast: also F. dune in same sense. But its relationship to these words is phonetically uncertain, and rendered more so by the existence of the form den. Relationship to Ger. tenne floor, perh. orig. ‘a flat’, has also been suggested; but the history of the word does not go back far enough to admit of any certain conclusion.]
1. A bare sandy tract by the sea; a low sand-hill; as in the Denes north and south of Yarmouth, Dene-side there, the Den at Exmouth, Teignmouth, etc.
(α) in form den.
1278[see 2]. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 26 There being aboue fiue thousand pounds worth of them at a time upon her dens a sunning. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 563 On the sandy den at Teignmouth, plentiful. 1847Halliwell, Den, a sandy tract near the sea, as at Exmouth, and other places.
(β) in form dene.
1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 7 Quitting Calais for St. Omars,—the deines or sand-hills..begin. 1845Blackw. Mag. Apr. 424/2 A ‘broad’..separated from the sea by a narrow strip of low sand-banks, and sandy downs or deanes as they are there termed. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xvi, Mrs. Leigh..watched the ship glide out between the yellow denes. 1857― Two Y. Ago 50 Great banks and denes of shifting sand.
†2. den and strand:
‘Den..is The Liberty the Ports Fishermen shall have to beet or mend, and to dry their Nets at Great Yarmouth, upon Marsh Lands there, yet called The Dennes, during..all the Herring Season. Strond..the Liberty the Fishermen have to come to the Key at Great Yarmouth, and deliver their Herrings freely’ (Jeake). Obs.
1278Charter Edw. I in Jeake Charters Cinque Ports (1728) 12 Et quod habeant Den & Strond, apud magnam Jernemouth [transl. in Hakluyt Voy. (1598) I. 117 And that they shall haue Denne and Strande at Great Yarmouth]. 1331Charter Edw. III, ibid. 13 Nous..voillouns qu'ils ayount lour eysementz en Strande & Den saunz appropriement del soil. 1706in Phillips.
▪ III. † dene, n.3 Obs.
A fictitious n. made by separating the adv. bedene, bydene ‘together, straight on, straightway’ into be dene, by dene; whence, by varying the preposition, with dene.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Vincentius 328 As þai had sene It þat þar downe wes done with dene. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7804 Nine ȝere..And twa moneths, all' be dene. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 272 Take thy leue of kinge and quene, And so to all the courte by dene.
▪ IV. † dene, a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. dēn-i]
Ten.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 587 Whenne the moone is daies dene Of age is good, and til she be fiftene.
▪ V. dene
var. dain n., den n.2; obs. f. dean1, and din. |