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threva

threva [AS þreues (pl.)], thrave, measure of corn, straw, or sim. (typically containing two stooks of twelve sheaves each). reddunt burgenses regi xij trabes annonae DB I 280rb; c1094 travam unam bladi E. Ch. Yorks I 166; coloni ‥ ad pabulum equorum regis ‥ solebant reddere ‥ de unaquaque caruca, id est ad cultrum et vomerem, iiij travas de suis frugibus Mir. J. Bev. A 298; habet de unaquaque caruca j travam bladi Boldon Bk. 4; decem thraves avene Scone 18; 1201 novies xx traves de ordeo et avena CurR I 388; 1279 ad solucionem travarum quas ipsa ecclesia percipere consuevit Reg. Ebor. 13; 1281 estimant illud [dampnum] ad iij thravas CourtR Hales I 170; 1282 ducentas travas turbarum Reg. Linc. I 16; 1320 in xiiij travis straminis emptis ‥ xxj d. KR Ac 482/1 m. 5; 1334 trabas garbarum que vulgariter nuncupantur ‘travae’ Mem. Beverley II 108; 1343 districtus est per novem thravos et dimidium drageti (Leics) CourtR 183/51; 1368 ad valenciam xv thravarum pisarum Hal. Durh. 71.

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