† ˈthirdendeal Obs.
Forms: 1 þriddan dǽl; 4 þridden-, 4–5 thridden-, 5 threden-, thredden-, thryden-, thyrdyn-, 6 thirdin-, thyrden-, (thirding-, 7 thurron-), 6–8 thirden-; 4–5 -del, 5–7 -dele, 6 -deale, deall, 7 -dell, 7–8 -deal; 4–6 (9 dial.) -dale.
[OE. (þone) þriddan dǽl, accus. case of (se) þridda dǽl the third part (see thirdel, deal n.1, dale2). Cf. halfendeal, farthingdeal.]
1. The third part of anything; a third.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 98 Seoþe on wætere to þriddan dæle. Ibid. II. 120 Bewyl oþ þriddan dæl. 13.. Guy Warw. (A.) 7306 + st. 65 Þriddendel his lond haue he schold. 14.. E.E. Misc. (Warton Cl.) 72 With the thyrdyndele of gume, and twyse so mych of water. a 1500 in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 147 Euery Sonday a soule out of purgatory and the thredden dele of al synnes releced. 1558 Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. i. i. (1580) 37 b, Drinke thereof two thirdendales of a glassefull. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 459 b, A thyrdendeale of the Crowne of Thornes is shewed at Paris in the Holy Chappell there. |
2. A third of a tun; = tertian B. 2.
| 1423 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 256/1 Thredendels and hoggeshedes so aftur lesse mesure. 14.. MS. Cantab. Ff. 5. 48, lf. 55 b, Hartshorne Anc. Metr. T. (1829) 54, Hit holdis a gode thrydendele Ful of wyne euery mele. |
3. (See quots.)
| 1571 in Shaks. Jahrbuch (1896) 142 The hooped pot commonly called a thirdindeale and a half thirdindeale. 1590 [Tarlton] News Purgat. (1844) 114 When Tapsters..Fill thirdingdeall pots till the drinke run ouer. 1620 Melton Astrolog. 32 Many of them dare not goe to bed without a Thurrondell Pot of six shillings Beere. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Thirdendeal, a Liquid Measure used in Salisbury containing three Pints. 1721 in Bailey. |