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1 juncaria [cf. CL juncus], ~ium , place in which rushes grow, rush-bed. c1180 habeant ‥ in piscariis ‥ mariscis et ~iis MonA VI 881; 1200 in stagnis et joncariis in mariscis RChart I 78b; c1245 iij geyris sub junctario [? l. junccario] (v. gara); 1309 de duabus acris pasture, mone et junkarie JustIt 1349 r. 15d.; 1327 Runham ‥ est ibidem quedam junkeria cujus pastura valet per annum x s. IPM 3/14; una acra ~ie Reg. Brev. Orig. 1v.
2 juncaria [cf. ME junkerie, jonkerie ‘banquet’, OF joncherie ‘strewing with rushes’] , good-natured deceit, mendacious pleasantry, joke. 1370 venire fecit per ~iam, conjecturam, et decepcionem quendam extraneum Cal. Pl. Mem. Lond. II 115; captum pro ~ia, decepcione, et falsitate per ipsum factis Ib. 116.

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