lucet

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English

Wooden, lyre-shaped lucet, with in-progress square cord

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Etymology

From Middle English lucet (heraldic representation of a pike fish), from Old French lucet (small pike), from Old French lus +‎ -et, from Latin lucius (pike fish).

Noun

lucet (plural lucets)

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Wikipedia
  1. A device for making braided cord.
    • 1956, Country Life:
      Lucets were used for making cords.
    • 1993, Sue Margeson, Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations, 1971-1978, East Anglian Archaeology, →ISBN:
      ... a narrow chain-stitch cord of the same brass-covered thread, of the simplest type made with the fingers or a lucet.
    • 1998, Elaine Fuller, Kirstine Nikolajsen, Lucet Braiding: Variations on a Renaissance Cord, →ISBN:
    • 2008, Shannon Okey, How to Knit in the Woods, Skipstone, →ISBN, page 98:
      Using Lucet tool or DPNs, make Lucet cord ...

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Latin

Verb

lūcet

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of lūceō

References

  • lucet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lucet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lucet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

lucet (plural lucets)

  1. (heraldry) pike fish.

References

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French lus +‎ -et, from Latin lucius (pike fish)

Noun

lucet m (plural lucets)

  1. small pike fish.

References

  • lucet on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)