gumphus

1 gumphus [CL, LL gomphus < γόμφος = fastening-peg] 1 bond, fastening (in quots., fig.). subtili gumpho, mira compage, vigore / ethereo levibus grossa marita facit Garl. Epith. IX 465; jam gumphos invisibiles et vincula rumpens / aurea, nature duplicis compage soluta / audet mucro necis animam disjungere carni H. Avr. Hugh 1151. 2 iron peg or hook, fixed to post, on which the band of hinge hangs and turns; cf. AN gon, gun, gunf. ostium seram habeat, pensulam ‥, vectes, ~os [gl.: guns], repagula Neckam Ut. 110 (cf. ib. 119: vectes, gunphi, repagula); 1211 in gunis, vertevellis, stapellis parandis, ij d. Pipe Wint. 115 (cf. ib. 171: ‥ clavis, gungis, vertevellis); c1230 R. faber ‥ operabitur gonos et vertivellos ad hostia Doc. Bec 110; hic gunfus, gunf Gl. AN Ox. 148rb; 1240 de novis gumis et vertevellis Liberate 14 m. 17 (= Cal. Liberate 453); s1267 fenestras et ostia, confractis gunfis, vectibus avellentes deduxerunt Wykes 203; 1268 fregerunt portas ‥ et gundas et †vertenelas de ferro fregerunt cum hachiis Rec. Norw. I 204; 1271 in gunciis et vertivellis emptis ad ostia, iiij s. Ac. Man. Wint. (Houghton) ; in stipendio fabri ad gumfos faciendos et vertivellas [et] haspas ad ostia FormMan 33; 1276 in goncis et vertivellis, ix d. Ac. Stratton 190 (cf. ib.: in ij gons faciendis); 1277 in gonsis, stapellis, et hapsis faciendis Ib. 203; 1277 in turrell’, vertevell’, guncis, seruris KR Ac 407/6/2; 1282 posuit guncios ad ostia et ad fenestras Ib. 460/27 A(2); 1302 ad gumfas et vertivellas faciendas Fabr. Exon. 18; 1305 pro iiij peciis ferri emptis pro iiij gunciis inde faciendis ad duo nova ostia in ‥ turre, viij d. KR Ac 486/17/2; 1306 in gunfis et †vertenellis, xiiij d. Rec. Leic. I 246; 1308 in iij paribus †vercinellarium cum gunnis Crawley 262; 1308 in ij vertivellis et in ij ~is cum clavis imponendis ad hostium camere emendandum (Ac. Combe) Doc. Bec 162; 1316 in grossis clavis factis pro hostiis, gunchis, et †vertinellis Rec. Leic. I 297; 1317 cum †gouffis Fabr. Exon. 84; 1323 in ij gumfis pro fenestris domus cere Sacr. Ely II 29; 1324 de receptamento iiij cultrorum aratri, ij vertevellorum, ij gonforum et j tolecti ferri JustIt 1165 r. 27; 1344 in gumfis, ligaminibus, et clavis emptis pro hostio porcarii Ac. Durh. 40; 1413 Johanni S. fabro pro vj ~is pro iij hostiis, viz. cancelle, vestibuli, et assensorii, ponderantibus xiij li. dim. quar Rect. Adderbury 7; partes domus: ‥ hic †gumser, a hengylle WW; a cruke of a dore, ~us CathA. 3 tenon. b (by conf.) mortise. †tenowre[l. tenowne], knyttyng of a balk or odyre lyk tymbyre, cenaculum, gumfus PP.  b morteys of a tenon, ~us, incrastatura PP. 4 hook. de Sebastiano quem sagittatum in cloaca suspenderunt gumfo [ed.: ‘in chains’] Ord. Vit. VII 7 p. 177 (cf. Acta S. Sebastiani 88, Acta SS. Boll. Jan. II 278: in cloaca ‥ invenies corpus meum pendens in ~o [v. l. unco]); gunfus, uncinus, hamus, uncus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 264.

2 gumphus [ME gang, gong] , a privy. illo [sc. domino tuo] pro more solito gumpho residente D. Bec. 1269; adulator ~um [ME: þe gong þurl] cooperit cum feditatem peccati adulacione tegit ne fetor senciatur AncrR 22; filium parvulum ‥ suffocans in ~o transmisit Latin Stories 106; ~us, þe hoole of a prevay ‥ dum paro menpirium, sub gumpho murmurat anus WW; gonge hole, ~um PP; a pryway, brisa, cloaca, ~us; ‥ a sege of a priuay, ~us CathA.