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picchare, ~ere, ~iare [ME picchen] 1 to pitch, set up, fix the bounds of. 1334 in ij sokett’ de ferro emptis pro fald’ pichand’ in estate MinAc 992/22; 1613 si ‥ opus stannar’ non fuerit pitchatum pro novo ‥ tunc licebit veteribus possessoribus ejusdem operis stannar’ ad renovandum veteres bundas post diem et annum Rec. Stan. 59. 2 to pave a street with stones or pebbles. 1454 in solutis ad ~andum coram hostio R. S. xij d. Ac. Chamb. Winchester. 3 to throw, pitch, toss; b (hay). c to load (cart). c1225 non licet carnificibus picere sanguinem et feditatem alium ‥ ante frontem domus sue ‥ in nocumentum vicinorum vel mercati Cart. Dunstable 237.  b 1330 si non habeat carectam tunc ~iabit ad carectam et vertet fenum et levabit cum percenariis (Surrey) CourtR 204/44 m. 1; 1338 [in] j homine locato pro carecta propria ad ~and’ per diem iij d. (Moulsham) MinAc Essex; c1345 in conduccione ij hominum ~ancium blada in hagardo, per ij dies ad mensam, ij d. Ac. Trin. Dublin 68.  c 1346 pro carectis pichandis Ac. Trin. Dublin 122.

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