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Quotation dates: 1418, 1497, 1551-1604
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Penn-, Pinnok, n.1 Also: pen-, pynn- and -ak, -ek. [? f., or f. as, Pane n.2 and -ok. Cf. Pennokn.2, also Pinnokil(l n.] A measure or quantity of skins.(1) 1418 Exchequer Rolls IV. 301.
j sarpellariumet j pynnok pellium 1560 Admir. Ct. Bk. 169.
Twa pynnakis of skynnis contenand iiijc xvj skynnis … ane pynnek of skynnis [etc.] 1595 Skene in Misc. Stair Soc. I. 145.
Gif thair be perchance in ane pynnok of skynnis or ane cordat viiixx, or ixxx skynnis they ar nevir tauld bot as the custumar and merchant aggreis a mangis thame selfis will set and esteme thame to icskynnis 1604 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 177.
Ilk pennok skynns thre s., ilk last hyidis foure s., ilk hundreth lamb skynis sex penneis(2) 1497 Halyb. 84.
Rasauit at that samyn tym out of Johne Erwin a litill penok of skyns, thar was in it 120 futfellis 1551–2 Perth Guildry 280 (15 Jan.).
Johne Morison … sall haue for the pakking of ilk small pynnok of skynnis contenand tua hundreth or thairby xij d. and for ilk vthir pynnok aboniic xvj d
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