lucet

English

Alternative forms

• lucette

Etymology

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Noun

lucet (plural lucets)

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 ...

Anagrams

• Clute, culet

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) 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.