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plumbare [CL], plumbeare [CL plumbeus+-are], plummare [cf. ME plummer] 1 to fit or provide with lead, to lead (sts. w. ref. to weighting with lead); b (w. ref. to roofing or covering with lead); c (w. ref. to lining with lead); d (w. ref. to providing or closing with leaden seal). librilla ‥ i. baculus cum corrigia ~beata ad librandum contra canes Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 309; 1377 una corda ~beata inferiori parti dicti retis infigitur cum pluribus magnis et ponderosis lapidibus IMisc 211/5. b 1199 si domus ~bata in Norhant’ fuerit Pipe 18; 1238 ad ~mand’ suppremum stagium Cal. Liberate 334; 1253 in clavis ferri ad ~bandum berefridum Ac. Build. Hen. III 238; s1384 hoc anno ‥ prior ~bavit gremium sive navem ecclesie Ann. Berm. 481. c 1180 in plunbandis goteriis RScacNorm I 8; 1276 oportet ‥ quod dicte gutture per loca de novo ~bentur Chanc. Misc. 3/48/2; 1285 pro xvj libris plumbi emptis ad pluncandum ‥ stillicidium (KR Ac) Arch. LXX 29; 1340 de ‥ j cisterna ~bata MinAc 1120/10. 2. 9d.; 1411 guterium ‥ ~batum in terra Lit. Cant. III 115 (v. guttera 3). d s1317 sperantes Scotos per frivola verba et paginas ~beatas de facili perducere ad relinquendum acquisita Flor. Hist. III 180; 1336 littera ‥ que est in desca camere ~bate, viz. in pixide ubi sunt testamenta Lit. Cant. II 125; cum literis ~batis quidam ‥ venerunt J. Reading f. 170; 1411 camera privata et ~bata Lit. Cant. III 114; 1454 literas ‥ cum cordula canapis Romane curie more ~batas ‥ accepimus Mem. Ripon I 300; 1546 per ‥ literas ~batas in forma graciosa expeditas de data Rome Dryburgh 288. 2 (dep.) to melt down (metal for casting). ~bor, -aris, i. fundo -is, A. gete (Deponentiale) Teaching Latin I 156. 3 (p. ppl. as sb.): a (f.) leaden ball. b leaden cannonball. c (n.) load of lead. a cestus plumbatas appellant ere ligatas R. Cant. Malch. II 8; cedite plumbatis, plumbatis cedite multis Nig. Laur. 1709; nec disciplinam accipiatis cum stragulis nodulatis vel ~bacis [sic; ME: wiþ schurge ileadet] vel vepribus AncrR 170. b jacula telis, saxa petris, et masse ferree occurrunt ~batis Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 32 p. 81; quidam alius canonus nuncupatus serpentyne munitus duabus cameris portans ~batam ponderantem de quinque ad sex libras Collect. W. Worc. 574. c ~batum, A. a coope of lead WW.

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