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slabba

slabba, sclabba [ME s(c)lab(be)], large flat mass of steel or iron, slab. 1270 in tribus gaddis et †flalbis [MS: slabbis] aceri et ferri vij s. j d. (Ac. Man. Maldon) Surrey Rec. Soc. XXXVII 2; 1301 dant per annum xij sclabb' ferri ‥ pro communia pasture pro averiis suis super Cantok' habenda KR Ext. & Inq. 8 m. 7; c1303 [for making quintains of slates of iron] ferri slabbarum Fabr. Exon. 26; 1309 in iij slabbis ferri emptis, ix d. in ferramento carucarum fabricando et emendo de eisdem slabbis vj d. (MinAc) West Coker 463; 1333 in iiij slabb' ferreis emptis pro ferrament' carucarum deponend' emendand', x d. (Holcombe Rogus, Devon) MinAc; 1351 custus carucarum ‥ computat in iiij pecii ferri emptis, xxj d., et in viij slabbis emptis, xij d. MinAc Wistow 61; 1400 in iiij sclabbis ferri emptis pro ferrament' caruc' emendand', ij s. (Acornbury, Heref) MinAc 860/7.

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