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tonellus, ~a, ~um [AN tonel, ME tonnel; cf. tunna] 1 cask or barrel, ‘tonnel’; b (w. use or contents spec.); c (as measure, esp. of wine); d (transf., as name for roundhouse). 1130 in xvj ~is emendis et in conductu usque ‥ ad London' x s. Pipe 135; 1157 in ~is et cuvis vj s. Ib. 95; c1160 x cuve et iiij tunelle et ij plumbi super fornaces Dom. S. Paul. 131; 1277 Edeline le Vinetere pro j tenello vacuo, x d. (Works) KR Ac 467/6 (2); 1291 per aquam exeuntem de quadam tinello stante prope dictum murum Gaol Del. 36/1 m. 2; c1300 lego ‥ filie mee ‥ duo cuppatoria et unum tunellum et j doleum FormMan 17; 1303 si quis portaverit ferrum per ~um, quodlibet centum debet ij d. ‥. ~us vacuus est domino regi Doc. Scot. II 460; 13‥ si burgensis habuerit potum ad vendendum ‥ vendat [ad] assisam ‥ nisi in ~o reponatur Cust. Preston 497; 1342 in xij hopes pro tonelis et kymlines cum factura j s. Sacr. Ely II 117.  b duos caballinos ~os [Brompton 898: †colennos] aceto plenos (Quad.) GAS 234; c1168 ut nullus ‥ tunella vini a mercatoribus illuc allata et ibi evacuata exigere presumat Regesta Scot. 62; 1268 tres ~os plenos frumento RL II 323; 1291 de quolibet ~o asceri iiij d., et si sit extra ~um, de qualibet garba j ob. CoramR 129 r. 15d.; c1310 de ‥ j tunello ad bultandum ‥ j tunello ad panem cum j cista LTR Ac 19 r. 42d.; 1410 pro quocumque dolio sive †conello [l. ~o] de gaide (DipDocE 374) Foed. VIII 576b.  c s1199 Johannes rex ‥ statuit quod nullum ~um vini Pictavensis vendatur carius quam pro xx s. R. Howd. IV 99; 1208 de j ~o et quarta parte j ~i vini ‥ vendito Pipe Wint. 30; a1250 vinitarius vendat vinum per modios, per dolea sive ~os, per pipas (Nominale) Neues Archiv IV 339; a1308 quod ~us contineat centum quinquaginta lagenas (LBLond. C f. 119) MGL I 699; 1391 pro j ~a j pipa de Rynen vj s. Ac. H. Derby 24; 1473 due cistule pectinum et dimidia tonnula in quadam navi ‥ carcate (KR Ac 129/1) Bronnen 1700.  d 1297 capellanos ‥ capiunt et ad ~um, quem H. le Waleys ‥ pro noctu vagantibus ‥ primo construxerat, adducunt (Lit. Regis) MGL II 213; c1406 quod pistores ‥ furantes pastum ‥ commitantur delinquentes ~o super Cornhulle et ibidem includantur (Liber Albus) Ib. I 162. 2 contrivance for catching birds, tunnel-net. 1328 j canevaz tinctum pro perdicibus in ~os fugandis (Reg. Wint.) Reg. Exon. II app. 567.

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