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creiera

creiera [OF creier] , ‘crayer’, barge (? originally for carrying chalk). 1347 potestatem ‥ arestandi tam naves, craieras et bargeas quam homines RScot 698b; 1360 magistro craiere vocate le Berthelemeu (TreatyR) Foed. VI 174a; 1379 de qualibet navi et craiera, cujuscumque fuerit portagii, que mare transient infra dictum admiratum ‥, pro viagio de quolibet tonnetight vj d. (Pat) RParl III 391a; 1391 imposuit in eandem crayeram j fardellam panni lanei SelPlAdm I 15; 1399 j ~am de partibus Francie carcatam de frumento AncC XLIII 125; 1440 mercatores ‥ extra craieram ejecerunt ac nautas ejusdem craiere subtus lez hacches ~e illius violenter posuerunt Pat 446 m. 23d..

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