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† ˈratchment Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin.]
In a herse, ‘a kind of flying buttresses which spring from the corner principals and meet against the central or chief principal’ (Parker); also, (?) a sloping part of a wooden framework.
1557in Bentley Excerpta Historica (1831) 306 It'm vj ratchementes with xiijne corsse lights a pece. 1558Funeral Q. Mary in Leland Coll. V. (1774) 319 A very somptiouse Hersse..the viii Rochments hanged double with Vallence of Sarsenet. 1596Lanc. Wills (1857) III. 3, v longe boardes upon stoopes withe three ratchmentes wth hookes to hange meat on. |