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trahicia

trahicia [cf. CL trahere, ME trais], one of a pair of ropes or straps by which a draught animal pulls its load, trace. b (in ~hiciis) in harness. 1250 in ‥ cordis et ~eciis et aliis necessariis ad carettas (Cambs) MinAc 766/20 d.; 1276 in j pari ~ycium [ib. 73: tractuum], iij d. Ac. Stratton 189; 1279 in albo coreo iiij d. ad ~ycios erigendos [? l. emendandos] Ib. 230; 1282 in j tragito et j corda de canabo, viij d. et quad. (Ac. Thorncroft) Surrey Rec. Soc. XV 34; 1283 in coleris, ~icibus, virgis, funiculis, uncto, et aliis ad molendinum Dom. S. Paul. 166; 1294 pro saccis et ~hytis emptis Comp. Worc. I 19; 1316 in j pari novarum ~iciarum de canabo empto pro carecta, ix d. Cart. Glam. 216; ? c1343 in ‥ xlv paribus ~hiciorum et xj carterapes Ac. Durh. 543; 1350 in ij paribus ~chiciorum, xij d. Rec. Elton 356; ~hicie, trays WW.  b 1255 [equus suus] portabit bladum suum ad molendinum [et] in ~hitiis ambulabit Cart. Rams. I 473.

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