English

Alternative forms

• lucette

Noun

lucet ‎(plural lucets)

1. a device for making braided cord
   • 1956, Country Life

     Lucets were used for making cords.

   • 1993, Sue Margeson, Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations, 1971-1978, East Anglian Archaeology (ISBN 9780952069508)

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

   • 1998, Elaine Fuller, Kirstine Nikolajsen, Lucet Braiding: Variations on a Renaissance Cord (ISBN 9781891656064)
   • 2008, Shannon Okey, How to Knit in the Woods, Skipstone (ISBN 9781594853418), page 98

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

Latin

Verb

lūcet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of lūceō

References

• lucet in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lucet in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lucet”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.