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comblus

comblus, ~a, ~ea [OF comble < cumulus] 1 roof. Cf. cumulus 6. 1229 ea que indigent reparatione in castro ‥ falsa cumbla cooperiri faciat ad presens Cl 188; 1238 [sub eodem] cumblo Cal. Liberate 321; 1284 pro vijc latth’ emptis ad cooperturam ~i magne camere regis KR Ac 467/9 m. 4; 1289 in meremio minore de quercu empto ‥ ad ~um camere cancellarii et ad ~um unius orioli magne camere Ib. 467/19 m. 2; 1313 pro xvij peciis maeremii ‥ ad unam combl’ novam faciendam super quamdam garderobam ‥, quia prior ~ea fuit debilis et purrita Ib. 469/16 f. 5; 1320 plumbario operanti circa cumbleam panetrie parve aule cum plumbo cooperiendam Ib. 469/1 (cf. ib.: circa cooperturam ~ie parve aule reparandam). 2 stook (of corn). Cf. cumulus 2a. 1298 (1521) concedunt dare quolibet anno ‥ unum ~um frumenti (Dom. Ipswich) Gild Merch. II 125.

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