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† ˈfotmal Obs.
See also formell.
[app. a use of OE. fótmǽl, foot measure (see foot n. and meal); the L. pes seems to have been used in the same sense. The reason for the name is obscure.]
A weight used for lead, app. about 70 lbs., the thirtieth part of a fother or load.
a1300Assisa de Ponderibus in Stat. of the Realm I. 205 Item charrus plumbi constat ex xxx fotmals; Et quodlibet fotmal constat ex vj petris, ij libris minus; Et quelibet petra constat ex xij. libris. [The transl. printed with this passage (taken from ed. 1751) has formel instead of fotmal; for the Lat. text which this version seems to represent, see formell.] 1375–6Abingdon Acc. (1892) 30 Et ad iactandum xvj vothres vj votmels [printed votinels] plumbi in pondere, Cs. 13..Meas. of Weight in Rel. Ant. I. 70 Sex waxpunde makiet .j. ledpound .xij. ledpunde .j. fotmel..xxiij fotmel .j. fothir of Bristouwe. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. x. 168 This [charrus] contained thirty fontinelli [misread for fotmelli], fotmael, pedes, or pigs. |