Meaning, Metaphor, and Chaucer's ‘"hikke knarre."

Author / Editor
Machan, Tim William.

Title
Meaning, Metaphor, and Chaucer's ‘"hikke knarre."

Published
Chaucer Review 55, no. 3 (2022): 317-26.

Description
Traces the definition and history of "knarre' in GP, cataloguing evidence for both a Dutch and Old Norse etymology. Offers some considerations for the role of the lexicographer and historian in general by addressing the particular history and meaning of "knarre."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Miller and His Tale