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fusil

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Searchable Lemmata: fusil (AF), fusillus (L), fussilus (L), fusilis (L), fusulus (L), fusella (L), fusellus (L), fusil (ME), fusil (MdE).
Alternate Forms: fesel, feselys, fisel, fisils, fisyle, foesele, fucil, fuisel, fusel, fuseys, fusile, fusilis, fusillam, fusille, fusilleus, fusiyls, fussillatam, fusyl, fuxil.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Manufacture; spindle (for yarn); ? a bobbin [L fusillum, 1327]; also, a mill-spindle (L).(ante 1230 - circa 1483)
1. Quant vostre fil est bien filee, E vostre fusil tut emplee [AND BIBB ANTS (443-444) circa 1250]
2. Johannes tenuit ij villatas terre in Hemmyngford Abbatis de domino rege per serjantiam. Galfridus ... tenet duas partes illius terre et Johannes M. terciam partem, et debunt (sic) j fusillam [? l. fussillatam] fili lanei ad pavilonem domini regis reparandum Accounts. [DMLBS Hund. (I 198a) 1276]
3. a spyndylle, fusus, fusillus, fusarius Gloss. [DMLBS CathA (fusus, fusillus, fusarius) circa 1483]
c.f.: fyn
AF, L.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) Decoration; representation of a spindle; an elongated lozenge (primarily in heraldry) resembling the shape of a spindle.(ante 1450 - circa 1827)
1. Le Conte de Salesbrey Montagu porte d’argent ove trois fusilles de goules [AND Grimaldi (233) circa 1400/1450]
2. [A fesse indented gules of three] feselys ... [France and England with a border] sylvyr and aseure gobbone [with] the flowrdelyce of golde [MED Bk.Arms in Anc.3 (203) circa 1460]
3. Berith gowles and a fusill of golde Note: The Blades edition is a facsimile reprint of the unique 1486 St. Albans print. [MED ?Berners Bk.St.Albans ((Blades 1881) her.leaf f 3/a) 1486]
4. sunt insuper alii domini qui fusulos portant ... et dic quod ipsa arma sumpserunt suam originem ab aliquo textore ut ego credo, quia fusuli sunt instrumenta ad textores pertinentia ... portat tres fusulos rubeos in campo argenteo, et Gallice sic, il port d' argent trois fusilles de goules. sunt alii qui portant lodisingos, et sunt breviores quam fusuli (vel fusilli) Other. [DMLBS BAD. AUR. (135) circa 1400]
5. sunt autem generosi et multi nobiles qui portant in suis armis fusulos ... sic ergo patet modus portandi fusulos ut creditur in universo. et nota quod quidam dicunt quod predicta arma inceperunt ab uno textore pro eo quod textores utuntur talibus fusulis de lana filata factis Other. [DMLBS UPTON (249-50) ante 1457]
c.f.: faisse fusilé, fusilly, mascle, mascled, lozenge, lozengy
AF, ME, MdE.
Sex: N/A    Use: Secular    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Other; other various spindle-shaped objects (in AF and L), including a shuttle; an axle or other turning mechanism; ? tooth, tine (of harrow) [L]; ? various spindle-like objects with undetermined use (in archery; coopering; a spinning top) [all in L texts].(ante 1212 still in current use)
AF, L.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, AF fusil, etc. and Old French fusil, fuisil; L fusillus, fusilla, fusillum and fusulus, fusula, from AF. Appears in ME/MdE only with sense 1b (heraldic). The OED adds: 'The mod. Fr. heraldic term is fusée; but the adj. fuselé, = FUSILLY, seems to show that fusel was formerly used in this sense' ['fusil (1)', OED, 2nd ed., 1989].
WF:
Etym Cog: fusulus (L), fusula (L), fusus (L), fusum (L).
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