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latchet|ˈlætʃɪt|
Forms: 4–6 lachet, 4–5 lacchet, 5 lachett, 6 latchett, 6– latchet.
[ad. OF. lachet, dial. var. of lacet, dim. of laz, las, lace n.]
†1. A loop; a narrow strip of anything, a thong. Obs. exc. as in c.
c1350Ipomadon 4458 (Kölbing) He gaff hym suche a spetuous falle, In sunder brast the lachettes all, That shuld his helme socoure. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 591 His harnays watz ryche, Þe lest lachet ou[þ]er loupe lemed of golde. 14..Siege Jerusalem 42/748 A grete girdel of gold..Layþ vmbe his lendis, with lacchetes ynow. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 338/1 Layners or lachettes of theyre skynne were cutte oute of theyr back. 1660Hexham Dutch Dict., Een Klinck-snoer, a Latchet, Thong, or Cord that Rings the bell in a house. 1676Hobbes Iliad (1677) 45 And Paris then was mightily distrest, Choakt by the latchet underneath his chin. 1709Blair in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 145 There were two Latchets, or Foldings of Wire plac'd in the inner side.
†b. Naut. = lasket. Obs.
1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 321, iiij Smale lynes for lachetes & Robyns to the seid Ship. 1611Cotgr., Les nervins des bonnettes, the latchets wherewith bonnets be fastened to a sayle. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. v. 24 Latchets are small lines sowed in the Bonnets and Drablers like loops to lash..the Bonnet to the course, or the course to the Drabler.
c. A thong used to fasten a shoe; a (shoe-)lace. Now only dial. exc. in Biblical allusions.
c1440Promp. Parv. 284/1 Lachet of a schoo, tenea. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 166 b/1 They of the towne within had so grete defaulte that they ete theyr shoys and lachettis. 1526Tindale Mark i. 7 Whos shue latchett I am not worthy to stoupe doune and vnlose. 1535Coverdale Isa. v. 27. 1555 Eden Decades 298 Patentes of woodde whiche they make faste to theyr feete with latchettes. 1688Capt. J. S. Art of War 16 Keeping..the but-end near the Latchet of your shoe. 1785Boswell Tour to Hebrides 11 Aug. an. 1773, Dr. Adam Smith..told us he was glad to know that Milton wore latchets in his shoes instead of buckles. 1827Scott Two Drovers ii, I would not kiss any man's dirty latchets for leave to bake in his oven. 1839Longfellow Hyperion iv. v, Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal-shoon. 1859J. Brown Rab & F. (1862) 27 He..put them [shoes] on, breaking one of the leather latchets.
†d. Phrases. to go above or beyond one's latchet: to meddle with what does not concern one. (Cf. last n.1 2 c.) a lie with a latchet: a great lie.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 475 And yet in that goe not aboue thy latchet. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 61 The shomaker must not goe beyond his latchet. 1610A. Cooke Pope Joane 20 He writes, that, in as much as she was a Germaine, no Germaine could euer since be chosen Pope. Which is a lie with a latchet. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 263, I to my Latchet will return, and rest me in a mean. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 49 You will say I am now beyond my latchet; but you would not say so, if you knew how high my latchet will stretch, when I heare a lye with a latchet, that reaches up to his throat that first forged it. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xxx. 152 That's a Lye with a Latchet: Tho 'twere ælian that Long-Bow-man that told you so, never believe him.
2. A catch or fastening for a shutter-bar. [? Another word, f. latch n.1 + -et.]
1842–59Gwilt Archit. ii. iii. §2263. 593 Door springs..door chains..bars with latchets, shelf brackets [etc.].
†3. Comb.: latchet-line, cord for latchets.
1468in Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 347 Paid for ij. pertz lachet lyne and halff..xijd. ob. |