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lucet

lucet noun: a device for making braided cord.

lucet: a device for making braided cord
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Noun

lucet (plural lucets)

  1. A device for making braided cord.
    • Lucets were used for making cords.1956, Country Life
    • ... a narrow chain-stitch cord of the same brass-covered thread, of the simplest type made with the fingers or a lucet.1993, Sue Margeson, Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations, 1971-1978, East Anglian Archaeology, →ISBN

Forms of lucet

plurallucets
alternative formlucette

Origin of lucet

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”).

Questions about lucet

What does lucet mean?
Lucet means a device for making braided cord.
What part of speech is lucet?
Lucet is a noun.
What is the plural of lucet?
The plural of lucet is lucets.

Words near lucet in the dictionary

  1. Lucerne hammers
  2. Lucerne Valley
  3. lucerns
  4. Lucero
  5. luces
  6. lucet
  7. lucets
  8. Lucetta
  9. Lucey
  10. Lucey-Driscoll syndrome
  11. Luceys

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