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eleare

eleare [ME *ēlen < ASǣlan] , a to calcine (iron ore). b to anneal, bake (tiles); v. et. 1 anelare b. Cf. L. F. Salzman Med. Eng. Industry 178; VCH Kent III 393. a 1330 in eisdem [blomis ferri] elend[is], iij s. vj d., pro c ij s. (S. Frith, Kent) MinAc 890/22 (= Arch. LXIV 156).  b 1370 solut’ pro factura vij furnorum de tegulis et illis eleandis cum bosco domini, iiij li. xviij s., viz. pro quolibet furno facto et †eleando [? l. elevando] xviij s. (Wye, Kent) MinAc 899/23; 1374 pro factura tegularum et eleand’ ad dictos v furnos Ib. 900/8.

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