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1 renga, ~ia, ~um, ~us [ME, OF rengce], ranga, ~ea, ~ia [ME, OF range], raingia [ME rainge], renca [ME renc, OF renk] 1 belt or harness from which a sword in its scabbard is suspended, sword-belt (also as symbol of office or authority). 1237 pro grosso argento ‥ ad j magnum monile argenteum ad pallium regis et ad ornamenta ~arum trium grisium regis Pipe 81 r. 15; reges ‥ tales [sc. magnates] sibi associant ‥ ordinantes eos in magno honore ‥ quando accingunt eos gladiis, id est ringis [v. l. rengis] gladiorum. ringe [v. l. renge] enim dicuntur ex eo quod renes girant Bracton f. 5b. 2 row, line: a (mil., of troops or weapons) rank. b (of buildings or shops) range. c (of stacks of grain). d (of abstr.). a 1435 triginta septem alie baliste pendentes in duobus rangis de latere in quo sunt fenestre ‥ camere Collect. W. Worc. 570.  b c1192 scoppam meam in nundinis Norhant' in †reugo [MS: rengo] wimplariorum, que est proximior scoppe predictorum infirmorum versus orientem in eodem †reugo [MS: rengo] E. Ch. Northants 62; 1261 nullus ‥ pannum monstrabit ad vendendum extra rangeam in qua mercatores soliti sunt pannos vendere Rec. Leic. I 95; 1287 in selda sua quam conduxerant de ballivo abbatis in ~ia ubi canobum venditur Law Merch. I 17; 1300 inter terram W. B. et terram R. de T. in raingia Cordewan' Rec. Leic. I 228; 1306 de quadam muliere in ~ia pistorum Ib. I 246; 1321 [two houses standing separately on two rows] ~eas [in the town of Boston] CalPat 2; 1324 in ~ia Willelmi de H. deficit aqua Law Merch. I 106; 1352 de una shopa ‥ in ryngea draperie ‥ de duabus shopis ‥ in eadem ryngea Pat 238 m. 8; 1440 in villa Bristollie in alto vico in rangia cocorum Cl 290 m. 11d.; 1460 lego ‥ j shopam ‥ in rangia vocata Boucher Rawe Test. Ebor. II 239.  c pastor ‥ habebit qualibet die ad bedripes unam garbam meliorem que stat in renco garbarum Cust. Bleadon 206; a1252 carucarii ‥ debent habere unam garbam sicut stat in ~o Cust. Glast. 61.  d eadem est instancia contra glosam qua dicitur quod auctores intendunt quemlibet talem terminum ‘animal’ predictabilem de quolibet tali termino ‘homo’ cum ranga monstruosa sequente, ut puta in recto et in quid mediante verbo substantivo vere et affirmative pro rebus signatis et cetera Wycl. Ente (Sum.) 47; patet plane ranga [v. l. arenga] inconveniencium supradicta Id. Incarn. 201; distinguendo hos quattuor sensus ex opposito per rangas inutiles Id. Ver. I 124. 3 row or strip (of land, occ. perh. cultivated land as dist. from pasture). b (transf., w. ref. to amount of crop harvested from a single strip of land, amount of fertilizer to be spread upon a single strip of land). 1225 de dono Rogeri del Estre unam reugiam [l. rengiam] terre in Gernemuth (Bungay, Suff) MonA IV 339a; a1230 in hac presenti carta mea confirmavi Willelmo W. unam dimidiam ~iam ten' mee in Gernemut' MS BL Cotton Galba E ii f. 76r; a1300 [a piece of land in the vill of St. Botulf at the west end of his strip of land] ~ium [next the house of W. ‥, being 60 feet in length and 40 feet in breadth] Reg. Holm Cultram 91; 1357 exitus manerii: ‥ de xij d. de ~is circa frumentum juxta bartonam bercarie Crawley 279; a1400 manerio de Slepe omnes domus et reugias [l. rengias] quas suo tempore de diversis perquisivit (Chr. Rams.) MonA II 581b; a1400 adquisivit ‥ in Sancto Ivone seldas et reng' que reddunt annuatim xx marcas Chr. Rams. 349; 1401 de ‥ pastura circa rencas in Estdamme nil hoc anno pro aver[iis] domini (Hants) Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/150 r. 24d..  b a1252 si deicit marliam debet deicere j ~um, si fenum ij ~os Cust. Glast. 139; si spargit stercora, debet spargere ij ~os, vel de marla j ~um Ib. 142; 1321 debet cariare dim' rengri' de marl vel de terra pro j opere (MS BL Harl. 173 f. 66v) Cust. Suss III 70; 1340 debet spargere j rangum fimorum pro dieta RentSurv. R 700; ligabit j rangum bladi pro dieta Ib..
2 renga, ~ia [ME renge], sort of sieve or strainer for sifting flour (cf. rengatus; v. et. OED s. v. range 2). 1226 pro ‥ uno sacculo ad inponendum florem dominicum et una nova ~ia, iiij s. Ac. Foreign Hen. III 95; 1335 in j ~ia pro pistrino empta viij d. Comp. Swith. 231; 1436 in situla ad fontem in collegio, x d. item, in reparacione j range, iij d. item, in meremio empto ad opus latrine ‥ vj s. iij d. item, in reparacione j range, iij d. Cant. Coll. Ox. II 149.
3 renga v. 2 ringa
4 renga v. runga

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