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vertivella

vertivella [AN vertevele, OF vertevelle; cf. CL vertere] 1 (band of) hinge (hanging and turning on iron peg or hook fixed to post; cf. vertebra 4, vertigo 3; cf. et. 1 gumphus). 1223 pro vertevell', gunfis, stapell' ad portam circa pomerium, vj d. Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/11 m. 1; pro vertewell', gunfis, haspis, stapell' ad duo hostia bovarie Ib.; hec vertevella, -e, vertevele Garl. Comm. 131; 1263 portas ‥ gundas et vertenelas de ferro fregerunt cum hachiis Rec. Norw. I 204; 1264 gunos et vertefles Building in Eng. 296; 1298 vertiwell' Ib.; 1306 in bordis ad fenestras ‥ in gunfis et vertenellis, xiiij d. Rec. Leic. I 246; c1308 in iij paribus vercinellarum cum gunnis Crawley 262; 1313 fabro operanti ‥ circa grop', virol', gujones, vertivell', ligamenta et alios diversos apparatus ferreos ad predictos springaldos KR Ac 469/13 f. 3; 1323 in gumfis et vertiselis [? l. vertifelis] Ac. Wellingb. 125; 1329 de ‥ duobus paribus vertevellorum pro duobus hostiis KR Ac 467/6 (1); 1329 in j gumpho et ~o MinAc 856/20 m. 2; 1334 in gumfis et vertinollis factis de ferro ‥ pro fenestris Sacr. Ely II 67; vertinellus, a twyste WW; hengyl, gemew, vertinella PP; 1452 vertibales et hengles Building in Eng. 296; hec victinella, A. stapulle WW. 2 (falc.) metal ring attached to end of hawk's jess connecting it with the leash, varvel. 1346 proclamari ‥ quod omnes illi qui falcones, austurcos, ~as, et gescias ‥ ceperunt ‥ eosdem falcones ‥ ad te deferant Cl 179 m. 24d.; 1347 [falcons and hawks wearing hooks] vertevellas CalCl 409.

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