reon

1 reon [cf. AN raiol, Fr. rayon < CL radius], spoke (of wheel). 1269 custus carettarum. in xiij pir’ jant’, xij pir’ reon’ factis, iiij s. iiij d. (Suff) MinAc 997/1 (cf. ib. 997/3: iij par’ radiorum).

2 reon [OF roion, recilon, AN reiun, reo(u)n], ditch, channel, furrow (in quot. w. ref. to drainage-ditch). b strip of land, furrow; c (as unit of land measure). 1269 in reonibus aquaticis mundandis (Suff) MinAc 997/1. b 1271 eo minus metebant hoc anno quam sem[inabant] quia reones totaliter submerse fuerunt et mensura acrarum satis larga existebat MinAc 1078/12 r. 4. c c1225 dimidiam acram terre arabilis et quatuor reones ‥ sc. unam rodam inter selionem dictorum canonicorum ‥ et selionem J. P., et unam rodam et quatuor reones que abuttat super foreram de W. Free Peasantry 182.

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