单词 | crannock |
释义 | † crannockn. Obsolete. The name of a dry measure formerly in use in Wales, the West of England, and Ireland. It varied greatly in different places, and according to the commodity. For corn, the crannock of 2 or 4 bushels is mentioned; for salt it appears to have been much larger. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > bushel > two to four bushels crannock1189 curnock1479 listred1879 1189–90 Pipe Roll 1 Rich. I, Glouc. 163 Pro D. crannoc' frumenti. 1219 Rot. Claus. 3 Hen. III, m. 2 Rex mandat..Justiciario Hiberniæ ut liberet Regi Manniæ, singulis annis, duo dolia vini et sexies viginti crennoc bladi, pro homagio suo. 1235–52 Rent. Glastonb. (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 1 j crannoc frumenti. 1235–52 Rent. Glastonb. (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 168 Centum crannocas salis. 1586 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. i. 29 Towe krennekes and a halffe of salte at the North Wyche xxxv s. 1591 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. i. 66 Thrie crynokes and a halfe of salte liiij s. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) i. xviii. 137 Neither ys the Cranoke or Wey measures used in selling [corn]; but by the bushell onely [see Note]. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 175 A Cranok of Wheat was sold for three and twenty shillings. 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. iv. ii. 139/2 In..1330..a Cranoc of Wheate was solde for twenty shillings, a Cranoc of Oates for eight shillings, a Cranoc of Pease, Beanes, and Barley for as much. 1815 W. Davies Agric. S. Wales II. 172. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1189 |
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