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单词 massing-penny
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massing-pennyn.

Inflections: Plural mesyngpenez.
Forms: Middle English mesingpen', Middle English mesinpeny, 1500s messyngpenny.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English metsung , penny n.; massing n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < an alteration of Old English metsung feeding, provisioning + penny n. (compare post-classical Latin mescinga kind of food rent (1279 in a British source)); or perhaps < massing n.1 + penny n. (compare slightly later mass-penny n.).
Obsolete.
A kind of payment or rent known from the account books of the medieval Abbey of Durham.
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1292 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 490 Et de 9s. 4d. ob. de Mesingpen'.
1351–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 552 10s. 9d. de Mesinpenys.
1438–9 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 64 (MED) Et nil de mesyngpenez ad fest. S. Martini, quia dimittuntur in gross. cum tota villa.
1536–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 667 De messyngpennys nichil, quia dimittuntur cum tota villa.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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