loupa

loupa, ~us [ME loupe] , (arch.): a ? louver (cf. Building in Eng. 220). b loop-hole, embrasure. c loop, ring. a 1277 in diversis cordis emptis ad diversas ~as KR Ac 467/6/5 m. 2; 1289 Elie le Cottler pro c clav’ iiij d. et pro cord’ ad lupas ij d. Ib. 467/20 m. 4.  b 1377 ad bordas, claves et ferrum ad ~as et alia necessaria ad defensionem ‥ castri pertinentia ‥ providend’ [understood in CalPat 6 as ‘engines of war’, cf. 2 lupus 5)] Pat 297 m. 27 ; 1387 super reparacione ‥ fenestrarum et ~arum diversarum infra dictum castrum [Cales’] KR Ac 183/12 f. 29; 1389 loupe , 1395 (1394) loupis (v. garita); 1390 quod ‥ garetta, brittagia, ~os et alias res ‥ reparaverit Ac. Foreign 25B d.; 1400 in muris turellis, loupis, portis ‥ Pat 358 m. 22.  c 9‥ lupus, luppus CathA (v. harpax a); 1317 fabro ‥ pro duobus lupis ferreis faciendis pro sneckis in fine cordarum ad vernam KR Ac 468/20 ff. 9v, 13.