cleta

cleta [LL < Gall.; OF cloie, claie, (?) infl. bycratis; v. et. cleiagium, cleiare] 1 hurdle: a (for sheepfold or sim. or unspec); b (for use on board ship); c (for use in building bridge, embankment, or sim); d (for scaffolding). a ~a, cratis, hyrdel Ælf. Gl.; 1209 in clatibus ad faldam Pipe Wint. 15 (cf. ib. 50: in xxxviij clatis ad faldam, x d.); c1283 debent ‥ portare faldam domini ‥ et levare, et singuli eorum portabit [sic] ij clatas cum palis Cust. Battle 56; 1286 in xiij clad’ ad faldam boum ‥ faciend’ MinAc 827/39 r. 2d.; c1290 †calces [? l. clates] seu cleias ad faldam domini faciendo Dom. S. Paul. 155; 13‥ debet post festum S. Mich. wiscare ij clatas de falda prioris Cart. S. Denys Southampt. f. 100v; 1388 l clades ad ovile precii iiij s. ij d. IMisc 239/1 r. 7; 1390 portabit v elates ad faldam domini de campo in campum quosciens fuerit admovenda Crawley 289; 1390 v clades pro una falda vocatas hirdeles PlRCP 519 r. 499. b c1180 pastores ‥ habebunt claias wiscatas, sub quibus custodientes averia sua jaceant Melrose I 106. b 1290 pro ‥ xviij clatibus circa bisquyt in navi Doc. Scot. I 140 (cf. ib.: pro ‥ furnitura iiij quart’ bisquyt). c 1276 fecit intelligi com[itatui] quod faceret reparare pontem de petra et non fecit, set de levi precio ex clat’ et maeremio illum pontem construere fecit Hund. I 54. d 1316 factor herdell’: in stipendiis ij hominum faciencium xlviij clates pro †seiryng’[? l. steiryng’] et scaffot’, capiencium pro herdell’ ob. quad. KR Ac 459/27 r. 1; 1397 pro cariagio ‥ cladarum skaffot’ et virgarum KR Ac 479/23. 2 a wicker platform or bier. b hurdle or sledge on which offenders were drawn. a in tertia parte foveae fustes fortissimi cum ~a fortissima ponantur desuper, ad sustinendum videlicet sacerdotem aquam benedicentem ‥ et hominem intraturum in aquam (Jud. Dei) GAS 417; si murdrum inveniatur ‥, custodiatur [mortuus] vij diebus super ~am unam elevatus (Leg. Hen. 92. 8) Ib. 608. b fraus facit ob panes pistores scandere clatas Gower VC V 809; s1447 ad caudam equorum eum [comitem Atholiae] fixerunt et socium super cledam figebant eumque equi de vico in vicum traxerunt Major VI 15.

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