† polen wax Obs.
Also 5 pulleyn, poleyn.
[Meaning and origin of polen uncertain; perh. a. OF. poul(a)in Polish.]
A kind or quality of wax, used for wax candles before the Reformation.
| [1450 cited in Rogers Agric. & Pr. III. 299/4.] 1464 Maldon, Essex, Court-Rolls (Bundle 41, No. 8), C de pulleyn wax et quarter de lussheban wax. c 1470 Harding Chron. ccvii. v, Wynes swete, and mykell poleyn waxe. 1490–1 in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 38, iiij pounde & di. of polen wex for makynge of the Pascall. [1898 Athenæum 27 Aug., ‘Polen wex’ is believed to have been a product of Livonia and other districts east of the Elbe.] |