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colus

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Searchable Lemmata: colus (L).
Alternate Forms: colum, collum, coli.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Manufacture; distaff.(ante 700 - 1500)
1. Colum : lorg, couel. [DOE ErfGl 3 (Lindsay) (0038 (40))]
2. Colum, quod sit in longitudine et rotunditate quasi columna. Fusum, quod per ipsum fundatur quod netum est. Alibrum, quod in eo liberantur fila, id est solvantur. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,29,2)]
3. colum: gallice 'del filant' Gloss. [AND TLL (i 132) circa 1200/1300]
4. puellam ... quae vidit juxta se jacentem alterius novam colum sculptura variatam Other. [DMLBS BONIF. (Ep. 10) 716]
5. [femine] manus superior appensa est ad colum, unde tortile linum trahebat; inferior affixa est ad fusum Biblical/Hagiographic. [DMLBS GOSC. (Wulsin 15b) circa 1070]
6. tastatores servicie presentant quod A. vidua brasiat ... contra assisam; ideo preceptum est quod scandat tumberellum cum colo et fuso Historic, Legal. [DMLBS CBaron (100) 1342]
7. hic colus, A. roke Gloss. [DMLBS WW (colus) post 900]
8. plerique colum et pensa sibi mutuo transmittebant, innuentes occultius ut ad muliebres operas turpiter demigraret quisquis hujus militie inveniretur immunis Other. (as a symbol of effeminacy) [DMLBS Itin. Ric. (I 17) circa 1200]
9. ubi filius non habetur, terram patris filie per colos partiuntur (Ch.) Historic. (as a symbol of the right of inheritance through the female line) [DMLBS Eng. Feudalism (259) circa 1145]
c.f.: conoille, distaff, rock
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, From Classical Latin.
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