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† pomple, pumple Obs.
[Etymology unascertained.]
Some kind of fodder for oxen used in the north of England in the 14th century.
One suggestion is that it was vetches (Lathyrus sativus) still commonly sown with oats as green fodder; another that it was a mixture of pease and oats, which was even in the 19th c. a common fodder in the district. But the season of the year in the one case, and the association with hay (cum feno) in the other, make difficulties.
1347Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 42 [Feb.] In xliij travis straminis avenæ et xxiij travis de Pomple, emp. pro sustentacione Boum, xj s. viij d. [April] In xliij travis straminis avenæ et xxij travis de Pomple cum feno, xj s. iiij d. qa. 1348–9Ibid. 43 [Feb.] In xlij travis straminis x travis de Pomple et feno emp. xv s. Extra Coq. In xxiij travis straminis et viij travis de Pomple cum feno empt. pro bobus pascendis. c1350Ibid. 44 [December] In..iiij travis de Pumple. 1349Finchale Invent. (Surtees) p. xxxiii, xviij qu. vj bus. avenæ et pomple. 1394Jarrow & Wearmouth Invent. (Surtees) 183 In campis seminatæ sunt..xxxij. acræ frumenti,..lj. acræ cum fabis et pisis, x. acræ avenæ et pumpyl. [1900N. & Q. 9th Ser. VI. 235 A field of six acres on..Bury (or Berry) Court Farm in Cliffe, near Rochester, Kent, was long known as ‘Pompill Croft’,..in a bill in Chancery..temp. James I,..‘Pumple Croft’.] |