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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1508
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Pullan, n. (? ME puleyn (1313–14), poleyne (1373, c1440), a kind of ladder for lowering casks into a cellar (here ? the hold of a ship), OF po(u)lain id. (1280 in Godef.), med. L. polenus (1198), pulinus (1236), pullanus (1241).) — 1508 Treasurer's Accounts IV 46.
For vjmjcxl fut of sarris pullan and plank to the said schip and xiiij pece of barrotis; ilk fut xij deneris
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