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hirdellum

hirdellum [ME hirdel, herdel, hurdel] , hurdle, frame or lattice of interwoven twigs: a (used in scaffolding); b (for shoring pits, weirs, chimneys, etc.); c (for carrying prisoners to execution); d (as part of bedstead). a 1316 factores herdell’: in stipendiis ij hominum faciencium xlviij clates pro seiryng’ et scaffot’, capiencium pro herdello ob. quad., iij s. KR Ac 459/27 m. 2; c1385 pro cxx ~is emptis pro scaffald’ infra magnam aulam fact’ Ib. 473/2 m. 5 (cf. ib. m. 5d.: scaffaldhirdell); 1445 pro v hyrdillis emptis pro schaffold’ Cant. Coll. Ox. II 169.  b 1344 in ‥ vj ~is pr lymeputtes Pipe 189 m. 45; c1396 (v. essewera 3); 1440 pro vectura meremii ad erigendum sive reparandum ij caminos ‥ ij d.; item pro ij novis herdellis v d. Cant. Coll. Ox. II 157.  c 1419 in herdellis, cordis, una catena cum uno stapulo ferri ‥ circa execucionem predictam Ac. Foreign 52 Ad..  d 1478 pro iij herdillis pro bottoms ‥ lectisterniorum Cant. Coll. Ox. II 202.

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