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tortilla [LL torta+-illa; cf. et. LL tortula], 1 tortillus, turtellus [AN turtel, tortel, tourtel] 1 small round loaf of bread, roll. b compact mass of powder, cake. c (in gl.). tres sportulas crustulis et ~ellis [gl.: ciclum] refertas ‥ familicis vulgi turmis exhibuit Aldh. VirgP 38; c1250 dat ad Natale quatuor capones et unum turtellum panis Cart. Rams. I 381; 1279 reddit ‥ unum †tritellum et iiij altiles (Camb.) Hund. II 482b; ~ellus factus de flore frumenti decoctus in furno cum vitellis ovorum et modico cimini Gad. 58v. 2.  b 1258 quod ‥ liberent W. pincerne ‥ ad opus ejusdem regine ‥ croci iiij libras, sucr' iij ~ellos, †ciconal' [l. citoval'] ij libras Cl 186; 1435 pulveres colubrinarum in tourtellis, vijxx v lib. (Invent.) Collect. W. Worc. 573.  c hic torcellus, A. cake WW. 2 upper millstone, grinder, runner. molae superior pars ‘~illus’, inferior ‘meta’ dicitur Jus Feudale 185. 3 (her.) circular charge, roundel. pile in armis ‥ aliquando majores sunt, et tunc dicuntur ‘~ille’ Bad. Aur. 183; ~ille sunt solide, rotunde, et omnis coloris preterquam aurei Ib.; possessor istorum armorum portat tres ~ellas rubias in campo aureo Upton 241.

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