trussa

trussa [AN trusse, trosse, truce, ME trusse] 1 bundle, truss (also as measure). b package, parcel. c1165 solvendo ‥ sex ~as straminis Rec. Templars 166; 1212 debet invenire iij trusas feni ad cameram regis Fees 146; 1218 fecit falkare ibi unam ~am junci Eyre Yorks 83; 1219 per servicium unius ~e feni ei reddende Cl 393; 1237 in v ~is ad logam coperiendam, vij d. ob. (Works) KR Ac 501/18 m. 2; 1250 unum trossum feni Fees 1181; 1285 si ‥ archepiscopus jacuerit infra boscum in hieme, debent ad equos suos pascendos de qualibet virgata j ~am viz. medietatem feni et aliam medietatem litt[ere] (Cust. Wadhurst) Sussex Rec. Soc. LVII 3; provideat celerarius ‥ certas trassas litere mittendas ad stabularium projiciendo sub equis Cart. Glouc. III 107; item iij c xxiij trousse sagittarum, quelibet troussa de duabus duodenis, ‥ appretiata qualibet troussa, una per aliam, xij s. vj. d. Collect. W. Worc. 572; 1509 de navi predicta j trussum cum j pecia satyne continente xxij virgas EEC 579.  b 1203 quod quietetis ‥ unam navatam vini de mala tolta in descendendo et in ascendendo unum trucim salis Pat 24b; 1283 ij d. in j trassia allei empta (Worcs) MinAc 1070/5 r. 2; 1289 ij d. quad. in j tracia allei empta (Worcs) Ib. 1070/8 r. 1; ~a mirre iij oz. vj d. Invent. Med. 16. 2 truss, tackle used to secure yard to ship's mast. 1337 in diversis cordis de russhewale cum schivis et ~is pro uno rakke inde faciendo (KR Ac) Sea Terms II 117.