martellus

martellus [LL], ~um, ~a 1 little hammer; b (as tool of mason or smith); c (in a mill). s1235 confractum est sigillum abbatis uno ~o G. S. Alb. I 302; an hamere, malleus ‥ mercus, merculus, mercellus CathA.  b audies ‥ nunc follium flatus, nunc ~orum ictus Gir. IK I 6 p. 66; faber quidam ‥ quadam die mortella lapidem terens (Coemgenus 14) VSH I 241; 1253 grese ad ~a acuenda (KR Ac 467/1) Building in Eng. 337; ferrum ‥ de quo fiant ~i et incudes Bacon Min. 382; 1295 vj d. in acero empto pro ~o Willelmi de H. [sc. fabri] emendando KR Ac 5/8 m. 5; conveniencius enim dicitur, quod faber facit cultellum, quam ~us Bradw. CD 165C.  c 1211 expensa molendini: ‥ in acero ad ~os molendini, viij d. Pipe Wint. 155. 2 (as name); a (as given name); b (as nickname or surname). a in Polehangre tenet ~us de Roberto de Oilgi dimidiam hidam (Herts) DB I 137vb.  b filius Pipini fuit Karolus Tudites quem illi ~um vocant quod tyrannos ‥ emergentes contuderit W. Malm. GR I 68 (cf. Higd. I 27 p. 280); Gesfridus cognomen ~i hereditarium sortitus suis sudoribus ampliavit Ib. III 235; Karolus ~us, rex Francorum Gerv. Tilb. II 16 p. 931.