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gurda

gurda, ~us [AN gurde < cucurbita] 1 dried shell of gourd, in which ginger was imported. 1242 quod ‥ emi faciat ad opus ‥ regis ‥ iij curdas de gyngibratto Cl 509; 1253 pro j curda gingebrati, xx s. KR Ac 349/10; 1285 pro una ~a gingibrasii ‥ lxx s. (KR Ac) Arch. LXX 31; 1290 pro j ~o gingebrad’ (AcWardr) Chanc. Misc. 4/5 f. 9; 1299 in ij ~is de gingebrar’ xxvj s. viij d. Ac. Durh. 495; 1303 pro xxviiij ~is et pixibus magnis et parvis gingebrad’ et festucad’ et pynonad’ KR Ac 363/18 f. 29. 2 drinking vessel, jar. 1272 de ‥ j ~a argent’ de aur’ et operata cum lapidibus Pipe 117 r. 1. 3 f. l. 1341 l li. sterlingorum in quadam gurda [sic MS, but l. gurla] de corio unius dame Pat 204 m. 5d. (= CalPat 327).

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