lucet

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

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
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