† hostryn.
/ˈhəʊstri/ Obsolete or archaic.
= hostelry n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > inn
guest housec1000
innc1230
hostry1377
host1382
harbergeryc1384
hostelc1384
hostelryc1386
harbergagea1400
hostelar1424
hostagec1440
innsc1550
host-house1570
fondaco1599
change1609
auberge1615
sporting house1615
albergo1617
rancho1648
change-housea1653
posada1652
public house1655
inn-house1677
funduq1684
locanda1770
fonda1777
livery tavern1787
roadhouse1806
meson1817
tambo1830
gasthaus1834
estalagem1835
caravanserai1848
temperance inna1849
sala1871
bush-inn1881
ryokan1914
B & B1918
pousada1949
minshuku1970
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 73 He..Herberwed hym at an hostrye.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 119 Þus þai do fra ostrie to ostrie till þai comme at þe emperour.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 210 b/2 This wenche went to another that laye in the same hostery.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 39 I was neuer bard ere..In sich an oostré as this!
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke ii. f. lxxiiijv There was no roume for them with in, in the hostrey.
1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 282 Now a common Ostrey for receipt of Trauellers.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 88 The Princes sit at meat like Carriers in an Hostry.
1652 E. Peyton Divine Catastrophe Stuarts 66 She..accompanied him to some Hostery.
1699 J. Wright Hist. Histrionica 29 Five Inns or Common Osteries.
1790 T. Pennant Of London 458 (R.) In Stow's time it was altered to a common hosterie or inn, having a black bell for a sign.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as hostry bottle, hostry court, hostry house, hostry press, hostry roof.
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1507–8 Durham MS. Terr. Roll Le hostre house ibidem.
a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) ii It must be served in locks And ostry bottles.
a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 306 The joyous daunceynge ynn the Hoastrie Courte.
1881 T. Watts in Athenæum 10 Sept. 337/1 To have the grass for his bed and the sky for his hostry-roof.
C2.
hostry faggot n. (also ostry faggot) a faggot used to light hostelry fires.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > kindling
hostry faggot1594
chat1670
fire faggota1722
hostry-wood1738
kindling wood1783
kindler1791
fire kindling1849
crack1851
split1858
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. F Think mistresse what a thing loue is, why it is like to an ostry fagot, that once set on fire, is as hardly quenched, as the bird Crocodill driuen out of her neast.
1671–2 Overseers' Acc. Holy Cross, Canterb. For six ostery fagotes..£o. os. 6d.
hostry-wood n. see quot. 1738.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > kindling
hostry faggot1594
chat1670
fire faggota1722
hostry-wood1738
kindling wood1783
kindler1791
fire kindling1849
crack1851
split1858
1738 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 2) I. 143 Here they make those Faggots, which the Wood-mongers call Ostrey-Wood, and in particular those small light Bavins which are used in Taverns in London to light their Faggots.
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