Middle English Dictionary Entry
loket n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | loket n.(2) |
| Etymology | OF loquet |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One of the iron crossbars of a window; ~ nail, a nail for fastening such a crossbar; (b) a plate or band of metal on a scabbard.
Associated quotations
a
- (1354-5) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.8192 : In mercede fabri facientis pragges et lokats de ferro suo proprio pro fenestris figendis, 8 d.
- (1379-80) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.81101 : Et in C loketnayles.
- (1379-80) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.81102 : Et in lxx loketnayles 2 d.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.171/978 : For þe makynge of xvj lokkettes of yron to þe same wendowe.
b
- (1376) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.400 : [He had silvered a] chape [and a] loket [of] latone [for a baselard].
- (1382) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.471 : [A] copegorge, [with one] loket [and one] chape [of silver].
- (1394) Wardrobe Acc.Rich.II in Archaeol.62507 : Item, in deauratione j cultelli venacionis, videlicet, zone, loket, et alii harnesii.
- (1394) Wardrobe Acc.Rich.II in Archaeol.62508 : Item, in j baselard garniso cum lokettis argenteis deauratis.
- a1450 Lestenit lordynges I you beseke (Sln 2593)p.279 : Myn baselard haght a schede of red And a clene loket of led.
- (1456-7) Doc.York in Sur.Soc.35208 : Unum dagarium harnesiatum, cum lokittes, chape, et rose argenti.
- c1500 Buy.Silver MSS Hast.in HMC1.420 : Brokon silver, as old grydelles, lokettes, chapis, and other sawdrid ware.