basto

1 basto [OF baston] 1 stick, staff (cf. baculus): a (for keeping rings); b (for making a sheepfold); c (forming stock of crossbow). a 1303 annulus auri cum parvo saphiro per se in uno ~one (KR Ac 363/6) DocExch 280.  b 1312 xxiiij claios ad faldam cum iiij ~onibus ad eandem AncD A 11225.  c 1298 ~ones de †hisse [? l. hiffe = Fr. if] pro †arblastris [MS. alblast’] (KR Ac 7/1 m. 3) Doc. Scot. II 315; 1300 ~ones ad balistas AcWardr p. 151. 2 (?) long loaf shaped like a stick. c1338 uterque senescallus habebit ‥ de gustatoribus utroque die xij ~ones, duas tortatas Gild Merch. II 335; fecerunt ~ones de furfure et non de longitudine sicut solent Ib. 331. 3 staff as token of seisin. 1201 predictus H. in prefata curia per fustum et ~onem reddidit abbati et monachis totum jus Couch. Kirkstall 104; 1227 simulata donatio ‥ per fustum et ~onem BNB III 638 (marg.). 4 wand of office (Gasc.). 1285 servientes portent ~ones depictos signis tam regis ‥ quam abbatis RGasc II 271. 5 ‘baston’, licence to leave gaol accompanied by official. 1504 salvo et secure in prisona predicta absque ballio, bast[one] seu manucapcione custodis Cl 364 m. 7d..

2 basto [cf. bastum] , bast. 1292 in ij cordis de baston’ Ac. Man. Coll. Wint. (Durrington).