lodium

lodium [dub.] , (arch.): a louver, smoke-hole (also w. ref. to adjustable device of boards or sim. covering smoke-hole cf. Building in Eng. 220–1). b gutter. Cf. aulodium, lovarium. a [scriptor] habeat ‥ ~ium [gl.: viket. lovere (etc.)], cujus beneficio lux intrare possit Neckam Ut. 117; in aula mea hec architectari feci, ‥ lacunaria, tigna, ~ia, trabes ‥ Garl. Dict. 137 (cf. ib. gl.: ~ia dicitur a lucem do, quia per ~ium intrat lux domum); 1292 R. de W. ascendebat usque ad ~ium ejusdem prisone et ibi exivit et in descendendo usque ad terram ‥ captus fuit (JustIt) Doc. Scot. I 359; in ‥ j ~io aule de novo facto DL MinAc 1/1 r. 4; 1335 pro ij ~iis novis et ij corantz KR Ac 469/18 m. 1; 1373 pro iij loupebord’ de quercu emptis pro iij ~iis in dicta candelaria . ‥ eidem pro xiiij peciis meremii vocatis quarters emptis pro stothis ad fenestras et ~ia Ib. 469/13; 1425 [carpentarii et tegularii] submiserunt se judicio majoris ‥ super factura novorum ~iorum que vocantur draghtlovers venalium Mem. York II 174; 1434 in iiij cordis canabi emptis pro diversis ~iis in diversis tenementis tractandis Fabr. York 55; CathA (v. 1 fumarium). b hic imbrex, hoc ~ium, lover Gl. AN Glasg. f. 20ra; lovere off an hows, ~ium ‥, umbrex PP.

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