lucet

English

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

Alternative forms

• lucette

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)

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

• culet, Teclu, Clute

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

• “lūcet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2022-12-20.

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)