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1 ringa v. 1 renga
2 ringa [ME ring < AS hring] 1 ring (in quot. of metal). 1284 pro diversis crokett’, stapell’, rengis ferreis et aliis diversis ferramentis emptis ad easdem [bargias] KR Ac 467/9 m. 9; pro cxij reniis emptis ad easdem Ib.. 2 dry measure; b (w. spec. equivalent). a1140 duodecim ~as del melehous, tritici vannati Cart. Rams. III 163; 1279 dabit et j †reugam [l. rengam] avene que dicitur fodderkorn Hund. 657a; 1279 triturabit unam mittam ordei, sc. quatuor †beng’ [MS: reng’] per annum Ib. 657b; 1287 iij quarteria, j ~am, ij busellos dim. avene; j ~am pisorum Rec. Elton 14; in ij ~is salis xvij d. ob. Ib. 22; 1291 in calce, sc. iiij m ‥ ringes, pro quolibet c ~arum v s. (Works) KR Ac 486/7; 1298 in v ~is farine missis celerario Rec. Elton 62; 1319 spergebit unam rengam formenti (Ashdon) Cust. Essex; 1350 in granario: xiij rynge ordei Rec. Elton 386.  b a1140 v communes ~e brasei ‥ faciunt mittam Cart. Rams. III 158; xviij communes ~e faciunt unam magnam quarteriam, excepto Borcuuelle, quod facit xx communes ~as unam magnam quarteria Ib.; iv communes ~e, duo busselli, faciunt mittam gruti Ib.; mitta ‥ gruti facit quatuor ~as communes et dimidiam Ib. 163; 1316 frumentum ‥ inde in missione apud Rameseiam xviij ring’ que fecerunt unum magnum quartarium MinAc Wistow 41. 3 measuring vessel; b (mon., used in measuring pittance of beer or wine). 1250 ~a j lingnea; bussellus j ferro ligatus MinAc 766/20d.; 12‥ hoc est stauramentum: ‥ una tina et due ~e et due leppe Cart. Rams. III 253.  b c1234 specialis benedictio vini ‥ a nullo dabitur, que semper datur, quando vinum datur in ~is, non dico in ollis (Cust. Bury St. E.) HBS XCIX 19; c1234 ad omnes solempnes potus factos cum quadam statione, ubi ferentes dicunt ‘Benedicte’, sicut ad mandata et sicut ad vinum in ~is (Ib.) Ib. XCIX 44; debet conventus habere rengas de pitancia, sc. xxij sextaria ‥ et post prandium in camera prioris ‥ de ipsis rengis ij sextaria Reg. Pinchbeck f. 166b; 1436 solveret quilibet eorum unam firlotam ordei in anno pro ryngis (Cust.) Reg. Brechin I 84. 4 (in gl.). rie, corne, rinca, -are; siligo, -inis Levins Manip. 103.

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