pulletria

pulletria [ME, AN pulletrie < CL pullitra cf. pulletaria] 1 (collect.) poultry, domestic fowl.; b (an individual) bird. de caseatrice: ‥ ejus est ‥ curam de poletria obtinere Fleta 173; 1357 vj d. pro expensa j hominis ad equum cariantem poletriam apud Farnham pro hospitio domini contra Natalem Crawley 282; 1391 pro putura ~ie ‥ xxj s. Ac. H. Derby 64; vendentes panem, caseum, poletriam ‥ et alia minuta victualia MGL I 249; 1443 pro sustentacione pullettr’ domini Comp. Dom. Buck. 23; 1453 Henrico B. de London’ pro pultria viij s. Ac. H. Buckingham 48; pultria, A. pultrie WW.  b 1266 redditus gallinarum ‥ in servicio regis et regine ‥ superexpendit gallinas et unam pultriam ExchScot 26; 1453 pro sustentacione signorum et aliarum ~iarum Ac. H. Buckingham 45; 1462 de ‥ agnellis, porcellis, ~iis sive aliis victualibus ChartR 193 m. 4; 1603 quod de bladis et fenis, equis, bobus ‥ agnellis, pollectriis et aliis victualibus ‥ ad opus nostrum ‥ per provisorem ‥ nihill quicquam capiatur Pat 1607 m. 5. 2 a place in which poultry are kept, hen-house. b place in which poultry are sold, poultry market, (in quot. w. ref. to market and street in London) Poultry. a 1301 in parietibus domus poletr[ie] (v. directorium 1a); 1305 in j fenestra super domum poletr’ (v. laticium).  b de shoppes in parochia sancte Mildrette ‥ in Poletria Reg. S. Aug. 328; 1456 tria ‥ mesuagia in parochia Sanctae Mildredae in Poletria Londoniarum Reg. Whet. I 236. 3 poultry (as department of household). 1365 garcio candellarie ‥ garcio ~ie Pat 272 m. 11; 1393 super officio poletrie, per manus W. H. pro caponibus, gallinis, pullis, pulcinis, lacte, butiro ‥ per ipsum emptis Ac. H. Derby 241; 1421 coquina ‥ ~ia ‥ scutilleria (KR Ac) JRL Bull. XXVI 264.