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posnetn.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pocenet. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pocenet, pocenette, poscenet, posenet, posnet, possenet, postnez, Anglo-Norman and Old French possonet, Old French poçonnet, pochonet, Old French, Middle French pochonnet, Middle French pochenet ladle, dish, small cooking pot (early 13th cent.) < Anglo-Norman pochun and Old French poçon , posson , Old French, Middle French, French regional (chiefly Savoy) pochon pot, cup, ladle (13th cent.; < Old French, Middle French, French regional (Franco-Provençal region) poche ladle (late 11th cent. as poje ; < post-classical Latin popia ladle (4th cent.), of uncertain origin) + -on , diminutive suffix: see -oon suffix) + -et -et suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin pocenettus, pocinettus, poscenetus, possenettus, possinetus (from early 13th cent. in British sources).Welsh posned (c1400) is < Anglo-Norman, perhaps via Middle English. It is uncertain whether early examples such as the following show the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:1279 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1876) 10 324 j poscenett.1326 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 114 j Postenest pro Hostillario.1442 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 178 Unum poscenet, pretii xvj d. Now historical. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pot with legs or feet c1350 in (1951) 2 44 (MED) I mot haue muche more wat þen a dishe, a pypin and a posnet. 1411 Will in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt (1931) 216 (MED) Y be-queþe to Johon Wyot..a postnet þat y lent hym. a1475 (Sloane) (1862) 10 (MED) Welle alle togedur in a posnet. 1551 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. II. f. 77v, in at Posnet The said Jhone promysit to hyme..and [sic] pot worth xiij s. quhilk beand refferrit to the said Jhone Quhytis aith he hes sworne..that he [promysit] bot ane small posnet. 1592 T. Kyd 3 She put the posnet on the fire againe. 1612 in Jan. (1906) 28 In the Kytchin..sixe brasse potts, eighte kettles, four postnetts. a1665 K. Digby (1669) 136 In a Possnet set it upon a clear lighted Char-coal-fire. 1710 R. Steele No. 245. ⁋2 A Silver Posnet to butter Eggs. 1829 J. Hunter Posnet, a pot for boiling. 1891 Sept. 345/2 The great number of pewter plates,..teapots, posnets and porringers still found in old homes in New England. 1969 17 Aug. 14/3 Iron ware including skillets, griddle and posnet. 1997 4 Apr. 16/4 A..book which will educate those of us who..live in a world of 18th-century literature into the mysteries of lambrequins, posnets, eye-catchers and shell rooms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1350 |