† shipbreche Obs.
Also 1 -bryce, 4 -bruche, -burch.
[f. ship n.1 + breach, bruche. Cf. WFris. skipbrek, MLG. schipbroke, MDu. schipbroke, -breuke (Du. -breuk), MHG., G. schiffbruch.]
Shipwreck.
In late OE. recorded only in the sense ‘right to claim what is cast up on the shore in a shipwreck’.
| a 1067 Charter in Kemble Cod. Dipl. (1846) IV. 208 Ic habbe ᵹeᵹeofen Criste and sancte Marie..forestall and hamsocne, griðbryce and scipbryce, and ða sæ upwarp..æt Bramcæstre and æt Ringstyde. ? a 1100 Charter in Dugdale Monast. (1655) I. 237/2 Mundbriche, feardwite,..infongenthef, sypbriche, tol, & tem. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 369 Schipmen þat seilled in þe see in to shipbruche. Ibid., And þerfore me seide þat þey brouȝte hem to ship⁓breche. 1398 ― Barth. De P.R. xii. xii. (Bodl. MS.), Schipmen trowiþ þat it bodeþ goode ȝif þei mete swannes in perile of schipburch [ed. 1495 shippe breche]. c 1440 Gesta Rom. xiv. 48 Penaunce is þe secunde table aftir Shipbreche. |
So † ship-breching (in quot. -breging, cf. bryg s.v. breach n.), † ship-break (in quot. -brek).
| a 1300 Cursor M. 20973 Scipbreging [Gött. Schip-breking] he suffurd thrise. 1520 Nisbet N.T. 2 Cor. xi. 25 Thrijse I was at schipbrek [Wyclif shipbreche]. |