Cord made of braided or interwoven strands of silk, threads of gold, etc.; also, a length of such cord; also, the thread of life controlled by the Fates.
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Arch. (a) Beveled stone used to form the slope of a gable coping, the offset of a buttress, etc.; a piece of such stone, a skew; skeu scapeled; (b) in cpds. & combs.: skeu assheler, squared, hewed……
(a) = fente n. (a);
(b) arch. an embrasure in a battlement, a crenel; ventes crest, prob. the stone finishing at the base of a crenel;
(c) as surname and place name.
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