pultura

pultura [AN pulture < CL puls+-ura, cf. 1 putura] , food allowance (esp. for forester, servant, or animal), the duty to provide or right to demand such an allowance, ‘puture’. 1205 sint quieti ‥ a ~a serjanorum et de rewardo forestariorum MonA VI 11376; c1225 quietanciam ‥ de ~a serviencium et forestariorum meorum Ch. Chester 215; c1278 faciendo forinsecum servicium, sc. ~am duorum forestariorum ter per annum Cart. Chester 660 p. 364; 1281 facient domino tres precarias in autumpno, viz. duas precarias quilibet cum uno homine pro die ad porturam domini ut decet et terciam cum tota familia sua ‥ si dominus voluerit pariter ad porturam domini CoramR 60 r. 33d..