Searchable Lemmata: pensum (L).
Alternate Forms: pensa, pensi, pensis.
1a(n.)
Law/Custom;
in cloth and clothing contexts, a day's worth of wool for spinning (as presented to a slave or worker); a portion of wool to be processed.(ante 1000 - ante 1250)
Sex: N/A Use: Secular Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.)
Raw Material;
spinner's work; spinning (also appears in figurative contexts).(circa 1080)
1. hic purpura, punico, murice et Sidoniis conchiliis imbuta, coccusque bis tinctus auro intexitur ... sed subtracta sibi vincens amor omnia Chrisit / excutit accessu, lubrica pensa manu
Biblical/Hagiographic, Poetic.
[DMLBS GOSC. (Edith 69) circa 1080]
Sex: Male, Female Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.)
Raw Material;
thread.(ante 700 - ante 1000)
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
3(n.)
Raw Material;
'warp' (in a AF gloss) [AND1].(circa 1250)
1. [173] ... sarcinium: clutement ... sarcitor: clutur ... sutrix: cuteresse ... [174] ... tingo: teindre ... [175] ... hec fele ... : bice, hinde ... [176] ... pensum, pensi: werfe
Gloss.
[AND Gloss Garland (173-176) circa 1200/1300]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
4a(n.)
Manufacture;
in glosses, a spindle (glossed with fusellum, fusil). See also peson.(circa 1200 - ante 1450)
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
4b(n.)
Other;
in a gloss, a part of a spindle; a spindle-whorl? (AND1 suggests 'the shaft?', s.v. 'pinel').(circa 1300)
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
5(n.)
Raw Material;
other various meanings: a weight or weighed amount; a standard unit of the weight of a commodity (such as wool); payment or wages (also figuratively); the pan of a balance scale.(ante 1170)
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
