Now dial. Forms: α. 4–5 saa, 5 sa, saae, 4–5, 9 sae, 8 cea (see also SAY sb.3). β. 4, 7–9 so, 5–6 soo 6 swoo), 5– soe (6 sooe, sowe, 8 sow), 7–8 soa. [a. ON. sá-r: see SAY sb.3] A large tub.
α. 1377–8. Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 387. In uno sae empt. pro vitriario.
c. 1425. in Wr.-Wülcker, 662. Hec tina, sa.
1459–60. Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 152. Pro j saa pro aqua portanda. Ibid. (1480–1), 97. j sae;… ij saez.
1752. Rec. Elgin (1903), I. 446. All tubs, ceas,… and other cooper work.
1889. Ellis, Pronunc., v. 799. [In Orkney] sae is a pail or bucket.
β. c. 1300. Havelok, 933. He kam to þe welle, water up-drow, And filde þer a michel so.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 462/1. Soo, or cowl, vessel, tina.
1459. in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees), 86. Tubbes, soes, alepoittes.
1541. Hist. MSS. Commiss., Rutland MSS., IV. 352. For one soo to the stable.
1578. Richmond. Wills & Inv. (Surtees), 282. A swoo with other smole tryfles.
1580–1. Reg. St. Michael-le-Belfrey, York (Surtees), I. 33. [A child] by misfortune drowned in a soo of water.
1611. Cotgr., Tine, a Stand, open Tub, or Soe.
1679–80. Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees), 352. The child was drowned in a little water in ye bottom of a soa.
1691. Ray, N. C. Words (ed. 2), 66. A So or Soa; a Tub with two Ears to carry on a stang.
1866–. in Linc. glossaries.
b. attrib. and Comb., as soe-ful, -staff, -tree. (See also SASTANGE.)
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 725. Hoc tinarium, a so-tre.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 466/1. Soo tre, or cowl tre, falanga.
1611. Cotgr., Tinée, a Stand-full, or Soe-full.
1613. F. Robartes, Revenue Gospel, 49. One cluster thereof is carried between two vpon a soa-staffe.
1653. H. More, Antid. Ath., II. vi. § 2. For one Bason-full you may fetch up so many Soe-fulls.
