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grounda [ME ground] 1 part of plough. 1269 in ij grundis in caruc’ ponendis (Suff) MinAc 994/27; 1276 in carp[entandis] iiij nov[is] caruc[is] et iij nov’ grund’ caruc’, x d. (Suff) Ib. 995/15; hec grunda, a hespe WW (cf. (v. haspa e)). 2 (?) stocks (in shipbuilding); (?) underlout, nethermost part of stem. Cf.Sea Terms I 60. 1295 meremium: in duobus grundis emptis xij s. in eches et brondes xxij s. in ij lignis ad fundum xxiij s. iiij d. (Ac. Galley Ipswich) KR Ac 5/7 m. 1. 3 (?) covered passage-way or penthouse. hec grunda, a eskyng WW; grunda, alur or alures of a towre or a stypille PP.

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