† mascull, a. Obs.
Also 5 maskyll.
[Of obscure origin: ? identical with mascle a.]
tun mascull: some variety of the tun (liquid measure).
| 1432 Rolls Parlt. IV. 405/2 [‘The wynes of Gascoigne and Guyen’ had only 4 or 5 inches of lees] in a tonne maskyll. 1531 in Sel. Pleas Admiralty (Selden Soc.) I. 36 Accounting always a ton mascull for a ton, ij pipes for a ton, [etc.]. |