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crana, ~us [ME crane] 1 crane (bird); b (? in word-play). c1472 de ‥ heronis, perdicibus, pocokis, ~is et minoribus volatilibus BBHouseh 109.  b 1216 de grue vesana / cujus constructio crana [sic]: Philippa de Peauton’ Cl 281b (in margine, cum imagine). 2 crane (for hoisting). 1310 cc [? ulnis] corde ad crane, xx s. (Ac. Ch. Ch. Cant.) MS Lambeth Pal. Libr. 242 f. 274; 1348 in carpentria j ~e pro maeremio et petris de novo turello [castri Dovor’], que ceciderunt ultra phales’ maris, sursum tractandis KR Ac 462/16 f. 9d.; 1388 pro trendellis eneis factis pro ~a [Sheen, Surrey] Ib. 473/2 m. 8; 1434 debitum schyves eneis quondam ad ~am pertinentibus Stewards' Bk. Southampt. I 92; 1438 omnia terras et tenementa sua, mesuagia, shopas, solaria, celaria cum kayo et krano ‥ in warda Turris London’ Cl 289 m. 28d.; 1462 ita quod nullus ‥ sine licencia ballivorum et communitatis [Colecestrie] ‥ wharvas seu ~as super ripas aque ‥ construere seu ponere ‥ presumat ChartR 191 m. 2. 3 part of rudder. 1296 in xxx semenayl ad ~am gubernilis, j d. ob. Ac. Galley Newcastle 178.

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