lovum

lovum, ~a [AN, OF lof, ME lof, love] , (naut.) ‘luff’, ? sort of spar or boom, attached to windward tack of sail (cf. Sea Terms II 53–62). b (per ~am) to windward. ligno quod porrectum in proram ex laterali transtro carine extenso rostro lambit mare ventumque admittit ex obliquo, quod naute ~um vocant W. Cant. Mir. Thom. II 30; 1188 in apparatu esnecce regis, sc. teldis et ~o et aliis necessariis Pipe 179; 1214 in emptione malorum et ~orum et virgarum ‥ ad galias r[egis] Pipe 168; 1296 ad quam [sc. navem] pertinent unum malum, velum, virga, lof’, quatuor anchore, tres cabule, et alia minuta atilia IMisc 56/20 (5); c1350 pro ij lignis pro loffis ex bouspret ij s. vj d. ob. (MS BL Additional 17364 p. 3) Sea Terms II 54. b 1378 naves ‥ attendentes in vento reverterunt per ~am in rescussum ‥ dicte navis IMisc 220/7 m. 4 (cf. ib. m. 3: se posuerunt super le lof; m. 5: querebant ventum super le love).

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