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pellet

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Searchable Lemmata: pelette (AF), pellet (ME), pelletta (L), pellet (OScots).
Alternate Forms: pilet, pellett, pelletus, pelletum, pellette, pelletto, pelletti, pelettis, pelettes, pellectarum, pellect, pellectis.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Raw Material; pelt, hide; skin of an animal; most commonly used to refer specifically to sheepskin or sheeps' fleece. The diminuative ending --ette, -et, probably originally implied skins of small size [AND].(ante 1200 still in current use)
1. [152] ... Li plus poant fereient peliçons De granz lovines e de veluz gaignons ... [153] ... La sabeline ... Est de sa pel vestue a chescun jor; Mais a un roi semble il grant henor Quant sis mantels en est orlez entor ... [158] ... Li cisemus e la petite hermine De lor pelettes afublent la reine Heroic, Historic, Poetic, Romance. [AND Rom rom (152-158) circa 1150/1200]
2. pelles et pelleti. idem r. c. de j pelle lane j multonis, et de ij pellettis ij ovium matricium Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. Cornw. (11) 1297]
3. De lana Domus ... De lokettis et pelettis Accounts. [MED *Bolton Compotus ([OD col.] lf.21) 1298]
4. item centum aliarum pellectarum que Anglice vocantur peltis sine lana debet iij d. Other. [DMLBS EEC (166) 1303]
5. idem respondet de iiijxx viij pellect' de pellibus nudis de remanenti anno priori de quibus extracta fuit lana et reparat' in vellera ut inferius Accounts. [DMLBS MinAc (856. 15 m. 3d.) 1306]
6. [394] ... Perre, perle: Margarita ... Peerle: Margarita, granulum ... [396] ... Pyke, of a schoo: Liripium ... [397] .... pylche: pellicium, pellicia ... [398] ... Pylet, skyn: Pellis Gloss. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 394-8) circa 1440]
7. de precio vij duodenarium vj pellectarum vocatarum shorlynges Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. H. Buckingham (17) 1453]
c.f.: pelt
AF, L, ME, OScots.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French pelete/AF pelette, diminutive of pell (q.v.); the word is unrelated to English pellet 'small ball, piece, etc' which is < French pelote.
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