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Middle English
Noun
meritote (uncountable)
- A children's game of swinging on ropes or similar until dizzy.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC, line
662:
What eylith you, some gay gerl, God it wote / Hath brought in you thus on the meritote.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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