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runca

runca [CL = weed, plant grubbed up; cf. AN, ME runce, OF ronce = bramble], ~ia, ~is, bramble, briar, thorny bush. 1267 ad dictum manerium pertinent ~es in eodem bosco IMisc 15/2; 1283 expensa minuta ‥ in ~is in gardinio eradicandis, vj d. (Michelmersh) Ac. Man. Wint.; 1289 de spinis, ~is, salicibus crescentibus circa boscum infra fossatum et extra cum veteribus hayis circa gardinum Doc. Bec 132; 1295 ad assartandas spinas et ~ias qui recreverunt in assartis infra parcum (Rutland) MinAc 1090/3 r. 5; 12‥ quod ubicumque clausa ‥ plantetur circumquaque viva haya, ut spine ~e vive radicate Cart. Glouc. III 218; 1303 de spinis et runc' in bosco MinAc 1143/18 m. 3; 1303 de spinis et ~is venditis (Knightwick) RB Worc. 526; 1486 pro reparacione unius falcis ad succidendum ~as in orto Cant. Coll. Ox. II 214.

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