sema

sema [ME sem(e)], load, burden (in quot. as unspec. unit of measure). 1270 pro j ~a de forrura vendenda in arreragiis (CourtR St. Ives) Law Merch. I 7; 1369 de iiij d. de ~a de lyme vendita Ac. Churchw. Bath 10; 1419 in iij sem' et in iij pais' albi vitri emptis de Johanne Glasman ‥ prec' le seme xx s. Fabr. York 37; 1503 quod predictus G. deliberaret eidem R. quatuor ~as de piscibus recent' Entries 156ra; 1512 pro vj ~is equinis zabuli, iij d. Ac. Churchw. Bath 103.

sema σῆμα

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