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vintena

vintena [OF, AN vinte(i)ne], group or set of twenty, score. b (mil.) company of twenty, ‘vintaine’. c ? period of twenty days. 1315 pro lx milibus de stocfissh et xij vintonis de moru Cl 133 m. 25.  b 1319 millenarios, centenarios, et vintenarios pro predicto numero quatuor milium ‥ peditum in millenis, centenis, et ~is RScot 200a; 1322 in ~is et centenis et constabulariis Cl 139 m. 3; 1324 arraientur, equites in constabulariis, pedites in centenis et ~is (RGasc) Foed. IV 78; 1404 in arraiacione, ut in millenis, centenis, et ~is RParl III 527a; 1434 omnes homines ad arma armatos ‥ muniri et in millenis, centenis, et ~is poni ActPC IV 275.  c 1206 quod ‥ facias eis habere liberationes suas de una ~a et nobis scire facias quando illa ~a finiatur Cl 63a.

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