lucet

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noun

A device for making braided cord.

OriginMiddle English lucet ← Old French lucet ← Latin lucius →
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Meanings

nounlucet (plural lucets)

plural lucets · alternative lucette

  1. A device for making braided cord.

    Lucets were used for making cords.

    1956, Country Life
    2 more examples

    ... a narrow chain-stitch cord of the same brass-covered thread, of the simplest type made with the fingers or a lucet.

    1993, Sue Margeson, Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations, 1971-1978, East Anglian Archaeology, →ISBN

    Using Lucet tool or DPNs, make Lucet cord ...

    2008, Shannon Okey, How to Knit in the Woods, Skipstone, →ISBN, page 98

Origin

  1. Latinlucius“pike fish”
  2. Old Frenchlus
  3. Old Frenchlucet“small pike”
  4. Middle Englishlucet“heraldic representation of a pike fish”
  5. Englishlucet

From Middle English lucet (“heraldic representation of a pike fish”), from Old French lucet (“small pike”), from Old French lus + -et, from Latin lucius (“pike fish”).

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APA

lucet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lucet

MLA

“lucet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lucet. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lucet,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lucet.

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