sia

1 sia [AN seie, soie < CL s(a)eta], a hair of an animal, bristle (in quot. of pig). 1248 de porcis suis debent pannagium, sc. de quolibet qui habeat siam furcatam [Ext. Guern. 25: †ferulam [MS: f'ram]] unum Turonensem ad diem quo pannagium denunciatum ‥ fuerit CalIMisc I 55 p. 16 (cf. Ext. Guern. 67: 1331 quolibet porco habente pilum furcatum).

2 sia [cf. AN sie, scie; sier, scier, saier < CL secare; OF soiage, sïage], form of work-service, (prob.) mowing or reaping (also treated as countable unit of labour). 1219 faciendo inde ‥ tres aruras liberas et tres syas liberas BNB II 20; 1246 [in the autumn ‥ they ought to make one great] syam CalIMisc I 34 p. 9; 1275 ceperunt ‥ averia tenentium de Saham ‥ pro arruris et siis quas pecierunt ab eis de toftis ubi nulli homines sunt manentes, pro quibus nunquam arari nec meti consuevit Hund. I 522a; 1291 servicium ‥ faciendi arruras, syas et pascendi grithservient' ‥ abbatis Couch. Furness I 310; 1292 syas [in autumn] Cal. IPM III 34 p. 30; 1299 debet qualibet die Lune in autumpno j hominem invenire ad syam RB Worc. 306 (cf. ib. 310: debet ij syas in autumpno); 1372 per servicium reddendi dicto hospytali per annum xvj d. et duas scias in autumpno IPM 232/11.

3 sia [ME sy(g)he < ? ON sía, MDu. sye, sie or ME sien], (sort of) strainer. 1281 in j patella erea ‥ vj salsariis, j sya, j lagena et potello sigillatis emptis cum j pikoys' Ac. Stratton 120.