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pundum

1 pundum, ~a, ~us [AS pund < CL pondus] , measure of weight, pound. 840 discum fabrefactum in tribus ~is ‥ et duas steapas in tƿæm pundum et unam cuppam deauratam in duobus ~is CS 430; 849 pro ‥ placabili pecunio id est lx ~a in puro auro et argento CS 455; 9‥ †depondio [l. dupondio], duobus pondis WW; xx pondia fodri et c anguille (Quad.) GAS 121; uni aesno, id est inopi, contingunt ad victum xij pondia [AS: pund] bone annone (Ib.) Ib. 449; 1225 de tribus pondis lane (v. 1 pondus 4c); ponderatur per medium clavum, neque trahens ad pondam neque ad aurum neque ad argentum Leg. Ant. Lond. 25; 1286 de clxj caseis facientibus viij pondas et dim. venditis Ac. Stratton 162; carucarii et bedellus habebunt ‥ j pondum frumenti et alium avene Cust. Taunton 16; j ~um avene et j ~um frumenti Ib. 18.
2 pundum, ~a [ME pound, pund < AS pund] , pound (for animals). 1274 destruxerunt equum Rogeri Elyun ‥ et moriebatur in punddo Hund. I 148b; c1419 si molendinarius convictus fuerit quod furatus fuerit de farina ‥ equus molendini, veniens ad pondus, cum farina attachietur MGL I 355; 1432 J. L. fregit pondum domini super capcione cc ovium captorum (v. impondare); 1446 presentat quod R. A. ‥ injuste fregit ~um domini regis apud Downeasshe de quadam vacca DL CourtR 126/1885 m. 1; 1560 totam illam predictam ~am sive le pynfolde Pat 958 m. 24.

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