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♦merch.unitload of a pack-animal subject to tax or toll:
(
1254
)
Item pessoners qi ad deux charettes ové pesson l'un et l'autre mette avant a vendre, et ensement sommages
Gild Merch ii 205
(
1329-30
)
de chescun charette de chose vendable [...] .ij. deners et de chescun sommage obole
YBB 3-4 Ed III 93
(
1346
)
le pleintif [...] myst a vente en la ville deux summages de drap
YBB 20 i Ed III 391
2zool.horsespack-animal, especially pack-horse (with its load or burden):
(
s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2
)
Ly chareiz e ly somages est de Baudas issuz Qe portent les vins e ly forment moluz E la vessele d'or e ly paieles tissuz
Rom ChevANTS 5367
(
1333-37
)
tauntqe un pount [...] feust suffisalment reparaillé, issint qe gentz a pee et a chival [...] [od?] summages peussent [...] passer
Northern Pet 39
summage et carriage
(service of providing) carriage by pack-animal:
(
c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3
)
Le charetter deit estre sachant de son mester pur garder cez (=his) chivaus e guier, e pur summage e cariage fere sanz peril de sez chivaus
HENLEY2 280.c50
summage (s.xii3/4)