scamillum

scamillum, ~a, ~us [CL] 1 stool. b ducking-stool. scannum ‥ scamellum et ‥ scamillum diminutiva Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 534; 1269 [Alice C. ‥ attacked him with quarrelsome words and then took a stool] ~um [to strike him maliciously on the head] CalIMisc 367; 1276 item quatuor mensas et duas ~as IMisc 34/1; a stule ‥ scamnum, scabellum, subsella, sella, ~um CathA.  b 1279 clamat habere has libertates, viz. ‥ collistrigium et samell', furcas PQW 350b. 2 bench, board, table (for preparation or setting out of food). b (market) stall for sale of food, esp. of meat, (pl.) shambles. c board for pressing cheese. hic ~us, A. dressyn-knyfbord WW.  b 1278 unum toftum et unum schamelum ‥ [rendering j d.] IPM 133/19/11; 1288 custuma scamulorum ibidem valet per annum iij s. Ib. 52/5; 12‥ dedi ‥ redditum duodecim denariorum per annum ‥ super quadam ~a carnificum que est proxima scoppe Willelmi merceri AncD B 2484; c1300 quod pisces vendantur in stallagiis piscium, et non alibi super ~um Chain Bk. Dublin 234; c1300 de scoppis et ~is per annum v s. vj d. DCCant. Register/J 60; 1315 de quibusdam shopis, skamell' et placitis ibidem Pipe 170 r. 55; 1471 pro abcariacione xv carucarum fimi de schamellis, precium caruce j d. ob. Ac. Chamb. Cant. 142b.  c 1275 in j scamell' ad cas[eum] pressand[um], j d. MinAc 994/29. 3 stile. 1467 [we have granted ‥ a certain tenement ‥ namely between the tenement belonging to the vicar there next the] scamillum [of the church ‥ and the king's way] Cart. Chertsey II 732; 1489 preceptum est Johanni H. emendare ~um exopposito tenemento suo ducens versus Greneclose CourtR Lygh II f. 2. 4 (influenced by homophony of ME bank < ON and bank < OF) shelving elevation in the bed of a river or stream, rising to or near the surface, causing obstruction or creating a ford or shallow pool. 1321 item medietas gurgitis et ~arum valet per annum vj s. IPM 67/2 m. 14; 1357 in purgacione scamelorum et Sture a Mildredemell usque Kyngismell, in nova reparacione ejusdem K. ‥ ; quo anno cives Cantuarie omnia schameles, Sturam et omnia premissa mundaverunt Lit. Cant. II 354 (cf. ib. 352: ne par schameles, ordures, ou autre collectes de terre parentre de deux molyns en la dicte rivere). 5 part of or fitting for a cart wheel. 1280 in dictis rotis yaxandis cum ~is faciendis (Ac. Ruckinge) DCCant.; 1282 in ij curb' ij shamel' emptis [ad carucas] v d. (Cliffe) Ac. Man. Cant.; 1316 j plata ferrea ad skamellum primi currus domicellarum KR Ac 99/21 m. 1; 1345 in axis, shamel' curb' hames emptis, x d. (Cliffe) Ac. Man. Cant..