† mertunn.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < the name of the priory of St Mary at Merton, in Surrey, south-east England, but the priory does not appear to have been famous for its bells, and bellfounding does not appear to have been a Surrey industry.The Latin in the quot. 1536 states that a mertun is a bell ‘of middle size’.

Obsolete. rare.

A kind of church bell (perhaps a baritone bell).

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1536 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 198 Compositura sive factura cujusdam campanae mediocris Anglice ‘a mertun’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	mertun
释义	† mertunn. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < the name of the priory of St Mary at Merton, in Surrey, south-east England, but the priory does not appear to have been famous for its bells, and bellfounding does not appear to have been a Surrey industry.The Latin in the quot. 1536 states that a mertun is a bell ‘of middle size’. Obsolete. rare. A kind of church bell (perhaps a baritone bell). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > church-bell knoll1379 mertun1536 church bell1609 kirk bell1629 1536 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 198 Compositura sive factura cujusdam campanae mediocris Anglice ‘a mertun’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1536
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