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shokka

shokka, ~us [ME shok] 1 group of sheaves of grain set on end and leaning against one another in order to dry, stook, shock. 1201 asportavit ‥ xx scokas bladi in autumpno de terra sua CurR I 434; 1223 quod ‥ reddent ‥ septem schocas et xj garbas [sc. bladi] Ib. XI 3; 1282 avena: vij quar' ii bus', sc. in sokes, excepta j garba super sokam MinAc 843/22; 1284 xx sokas, except' iiij garb' Ib. 843/25; 1316 J. G. captus pro latrocinio trium ~kkorum frumenti ‥ et duorum ~kkorum ordei Gaol Del. 40/2 m. 29; 1325 [avenam] in schokkis faciet (Laughton) Cust. Suss III app. 81; 1336 in ~ckes frumenti IPM 48/2 m. 17; 1351 tres ~ckos frumenti estimati ad quatuor bussellos frumenti ‥ furatus fuit SessPEssex 128; 1364 in sustentacione clx agnorum separatorum, j quar' iiij bus' per estimacionem in viij ~ck' avene MinAc 840/26 m. 1d.; 1366 in xiiij ~ck' avene ‥ unde j ~ck' continet x garbas Ib. 840/27 m. 1d.; 1371 ~kk (Moulsham) MFG (ed. 1968 p. 33); ? 1371 schokk Ib.; soccus, soka Ib.; ~ckum, ~ckus Ib. (ed. 1997 p. 40). 2 s. dub.. 1316 in iiij schokis emptis ad molendinum, viz. ad ponendum super axem dicti molendini et super virg' ejusdem xvj d. MinAc 1132/13 B. 9d.; in iij paribus de clewes et iiij schockis emptis, vij d. Ib. 1132/13 B 7d..

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