morterium

morterium, ~era [ME morter, OF mortier < CL mortarium] 1 mortar, vessel in which things are ground or pounded. 1265 pro iiij ~iis emptis, xvij d. Manners 43; 1310 x s. de j ~io eneo pro speciebus ponderante xlv libras ‥ cum pestello ferreo Ac. Exec. Ep. Exon. 7; 1390 unum ~ium de petra et unum ~ium de ligno PlRCP 519 r. 499; 1435 duo ~ia metalli ad faciendum pulveres aptos canonibus Collect. W. Worc. 567; 1501 lapideum mortireum ‥ j parvum mortirium Cant. Coll. Ox. I 39. 2 cresset, night-lamp. c1350 ~ium sive crassetum (v. crassetus a); 1453 pro ~iis ‥ noctanter ardentibus perimplendis Ac. H. Buckingham 24. 3 mortar, plastic building material. 1244 turrim castri de Corf’ ~io ubi defectus fuerit perjactari et exterius per totum dealbari faciat Liberate 20 m. 13; in ~a ejusdem sementi facienda xx s. FormMan 35; 1317 boket ad morter’ Fabr. Exon. 81; 1329 pro xxv saccis calcis ab eo emptis ‥ pro ~io inde faciendo KR Ac 467/7/1; quod quidem foramen cum lapidibus et ~ium [sic] ‥ obstupatur (Anc. Indict) Pub. Works II 60.