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tractellum [CL tractus+-ellus] 1 device used in pulling a shoe on (cf. tractorium). calcianti strictum sotularem necessarium est ~um W. Leic. Sim. f. 86ra s. v. exemplum. 2 one of a pair of ropes or straps by which a draught animal pulls its load, trace (cf. tractus 10). 1298 in iiij collariis emptis pro equis carectatis, xvj d. ‥ et in traxill' empt', xvj d. Ac. Lenton 26.

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