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pego, pecunus 1 candle-stick. c1245 super pecunos in chorum pretendentes Cust. Cant. Abbr. 276; c1266 tres cerei super ~ones accendi debent coram tribus ymaginibus Cust. Westm. 246; 1291 pro meeremio ad ~ones cereorum (v. maeremium 1h); 1300 pro ‥ pegon’ emptis ‥ pro eisdem cereis, pro quolibet pegon’ ob. AcWardr 46; 1309 in xiiij ~onibus fabricandis Fabr. Exon. 46. 2 crampon for holding stone in a ring. hunc anulum dedit ‥ in cujus castone continetur saphirus ‥ quatuor tenaculis, que vulgariter peconi dicuntur, circumseptus M. Par. Maj. VI 385.

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