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† balinger Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈbælɪndʒə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 balynger, -ingar, 5 -gere, balangar, -yngar, -engere, ballenger, -unger, balyner, 5–6 ballynger, 5–8 balenger, 6 balengar, -anger, ballyngare, -ingere, -ingar, 7 -anger, -inger, 6–9 -enger, 5– balinger.
[a. AF. balengier (Froissart), ballenjer (in Du Cange), = OF. baleinier, a whale-ship, f. baleine whale; afterwards employed generically: so It. baleniera ‘kind of light pinnace.’]
A small and light sea-going vessel, apparently a kind of sloop, much used in the 15th and 16th centuries; according to Adm. Smyth, without forecastle. Its nature was already forgotten in 1670, when Blount could only infer the meaning of the word from old statutes; but the term is commonly used by modern historians in referring to the naval affairs of those times.
1391in MS. Reg. Test. Ebor. I. 67 [Rob. de Rillington of Scarbro' leaves to Wm. Percy] dimidietatem nostri balingar. [1400Henry IV. Brief in Rymer Fœdera VIII. 147 Aliquam Navem, Bargeam, sive Balingeram, de Guerra Armatam.] c1400Petit. in Parl. 2 Hen. IV, xxii, Pur faire certeines Barges & Balyngers. a1422Hen. V. in Ellis Orig. Lett. iii. 31 I. 72 Our grete shippes, carrakes, barges and balyngers. 1475Caxton Jason 108 Foure litill shippes at facon of balingers. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xlvi. 158 They knewe by theyr balengers that the armye of Englande was comynge. 1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII, v. §2 The common passages of shyppes balengers and botes. 1598Stow Survey (Strype 1754) I. i. xiii. 57/1 By means whereof Boats and Ballangers were hindered in their passages. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 34 A port is a harbor and safe arrival for ships, boats, and ballengers of burthen. 1670Blount Law Dict., Balenger, Seems to have been a kind of Barge or Water-vessel, by the Statute 28 H. 6, cap. 5. 1865W. Miller Jott. Kent 45 In the year 1401..the barges with eighty, and the balingers with forty men.
fig.c1502Joseph Arim. (Pynson) 425 Hayle! myghty balynger, charged with plenty!
b. comb. balinger-master (cf. ship-master).
1463Mann. & H. Exp. 194 John More my balynger master. |