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kela

kela [ME kel] , small ship, barge, lighter. Cf. chyla, cyula. locacione duarum kel[ar]um cum bosco ‥ usque harangariam (Ac. Wardley sched.) DCDurh.; 1340 quod omnia blada per aquam ad villam de Lenna in ~is veniencia vendi debent apud le cornsondes et non alibi RR K's Lynn II 193; 1351 in portagio dictorum xxj carcosiorum ‥ de dictis granariis in villis Cant’, Ely, et Wysbech’ usque ad ~as in aquam ibidem ‥ et in portacione ‥ frumenti ‥ de predictis viij ~is in aqua apud Lenn’ usque predicta granaria KR Ac 552/33m. 7 (cf. ib.: pro denagio cujuslibet kely); 1367 in xxxiij ~is et una batella cum hominibus ‥ viz. in qualibet ~a v homines ‥ qualibet dictarum ~arum continente xx celdros MED s. v. kele.

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