† tapenern.
Obsolete. rare.
A kind of clothworker; ? a weaver of burel.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > method of > weaving other types of fabric > one who
tapenera1400
line-weaver1415
linen-weaver1474
sayman1488
say weaver1565
silk-weaver1572
narrow weaver1594
say maker1611
linen-webster1642
broad-weaver-
a1400 Usages of Winchester in Eng. Gilds (1870) 350 Þe Tapeners þat worcheþ þe burelles..shullen take for þe cloth xviij d.
a1400 Usages of Winchester in Eng. Gilds (1870) 352 Þe chaloun of foure ellen and o quarter of langnesse, shal habbe tweye ellen and an halfe to-fore þe tapener in þe werke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
<
n.a1400