gruellum

gruellum [AN, ME gruel] 1 meal, flour, esp. that made from oats or pulses. 1206 de avena xij summas de eadem villa ad ~um faciendum, sc. quarta et sexta feria per totam quadragesimam (Cust.) Chr. Evesham 218; 1211 de xiiij quar. ‥ frumenti et ~i venditis de exitu molendini; ‥ de iiij quar. iij bussellis gruti Pipe Wint. 107; 1242 quod de bladis ejusdem episcopatus moli faciatis ccc quar. frumenti ‥ et v quar. de ~o fieri et x quar. avene moli Cl 414; 1243 in lxx doliis vacuis emptis ad farinam, ~um, et fabas imponendas Liberate 19 m. 4; 1245 j crannocum de ~o et alium crannocum de fabis Cart. Glam. 527; 1245 in j archa ad gruell’ imponendum Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/18 r. 12d.; c1275 de v s. x d. in ~o de granario Ac. Beaulieu 255; 1275 (v. cribrum 1a); 1290 pro dim. quar. gruell’ avene (AcWardr) Doc. Scot. 139; 1318 in ~o, sepis, et alea, xvij d. Ac. Durh. 12; 1341 in ~o empto pro potagio conventus ‥ iiij s. v d. Ib. 539; grovel or grevel, ligumen ‥ puls ‥ farinacium ‥ ~um PP. 2 thin soup made from oatmeal or sim.. debent ‥ ante plenam comestionem ista [sc. laxativa] accipere in brodio vel ~o modico vel potagio Gad. 7. 1; Ib. 10. 2 (v. avenatum); ~um de avenato et brodium pulle Ib. 19v. 2; si fit ~um Anglicorum de farina avene grossa excorticata Ib. 22v. 2.