References
- 2010 . Oxford English Dictionary 3rd edn (Oxford), online version, November 2010, s.v. painter, n2
- Nicolas , N. H. 1847 . A History of the Royal Navy London II. 471
- 1964 . Anglo-Norman Dictionary W. Rothwell (ed.), 2nd edn (Aberystwyth, 2005), s.v. poigner. A comparable development was imagined by Augustin Jal in his Glossaire nautique (Paris, edn), a polyglot dictionary that has an entry for painter (p. IIII). He rejected the association with paint ‘to apply colour’ and thought a deformation of binder might be possible
- ‘Lur batel orent en mer mis, Car près furent de lur païs; A mal eür l'unt ublié: Une wage l'ad despescé’ It is telling in this respect that one of the best known scenes in medieval French literature to figure a ship's boat, Kahedrin's trip to Tintagel to fetch Yseult to the dying Tristan's side, and the subsequent storm at sea in which the towed boat is lost, thus preventing them from rowing ashore in Brittany when the wind falls completely away, has no discrete terminology for the line that would have snapped: (‘They had launched their boat for they were close to their home shore; unfortunately they then forgot it and a wave now tore it away’); Le roman de Tristan: suivi de la folie Tristan de Berne et la folie Tristan d'Oxford par Thomas, E. Baumgartner and I. Short (trans.), Old French texts reproduced from the ed. of Félix Lecoy (Paris, 2003), vv. 1606–1609
- 2001 . Middle English Dictionary Ann Arbor s.v. peintour 2