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curba, ~ia [OF corbe < curva; ME courbe] 1 a curved piece of wood used in building or boat. b part of mechanism of mill (? felloe of mill-wheel). c part of plough-harness (? swingletree). d (?) part of support for leaden vat. a 1228 habere faciatis constabulario ‥ Turris Lond’ xx ~as in bosco de B. ad operationes ‥ Turris faciendas Cl 70; 1284 pro xij wrongis, iiij ~is et iiij peciis meremii emptis ad easdem [bargias] KR Ac 467/9; 1292 pro ~is ad fenestras ecclesie Sacr. Ely II 3 (cf. ib. 13: pro ~is de meremio).  b 1287 in mola et ~a molendini cum viij circulis lign[eis] et in meremio empto ad ~as et circulos Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/46 r. 12d.; 1295 carpentario operanti circa ~as et ruellos ‥ molendini KR Ac 462/14 m. 3; 1312 pro reparacione rote interioris superioris molendini ‥ et pro ij peciis ferri emptis pro ~is ejusdem ligandis Ib. 486/25.  c 1276 caruce: ‥ in ij ~is emptis et ringulandis Ac. Man. Cant. (Lydden) ; 1305 in ij ~is cum ferro ligandis Ib.; 1286 in courbis et jugis boum ferrandis Ib. (Adisham) ; 1297 in iiij oxebogh et j ~a emptis Ib. (Cliffe) ; 1362 in ij novis courbis emptis pro iiij stottis ad caruc’, iiij d. (Kent) MinAc 894/15.  d 1336 in ij paribus de courblis [sic] emptis pro ij plumbis de novo reparatis (KRAc 19/24) Cal. Scot. III app. p. 353. 2 a (?) curb of wall. b curb of well. a 1238 in vj pedibus et dim. plumbi ‥ ad gutterias supra turellam faciendas et ad ~ias juxta murum coperiendas KR Ac 476/3.  b 1311 in j puteo de novo facto ‥ cum nova ~a lignea Comp. Swith. 391. 3 a river-bank or embankment. b s. dub.. a c1250 quod averia nostra ‥ libere †possunt [l. possint] transire ~as rivuli decurrentis per vallem ‥ ex aquilonali parte rivuli, exceptis ~is seminatis, ita quod moram ibi non faciant vel in dictis ~is aliquatenus pascant Feod. Durh. 137n.  b 1257 [operabitur in bertona ‥ circa] courbam [domini] Cust. Suss I 38.

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