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scuncheon Arch.|ˈskʌnʃən|
Forms: 4 scochon, 5 sqwynchun, sconchon, scouchon, skonchon(e, skochyn, skownsiom, sconcheon, 8 skimshion, 9 scuncheon, (scontion, scuntion, scunchen).
[a. OF. escoinson, also written escochon, escouchon (mod.F. écoinson), app. f. es- ex- + coin angle. Cf. the later form scoinson.]
The bevelled inner edge of the side or jamb of a window, door, etc.
In the earlier quots. the sense is uncertain. Godefr. gives for escoinson a sense ‘piece of stone or wood projecting inside a building, to support a beam, etc.’
1435Contract Fotheringhay Ch. (1841) 27 The said Stepill..shall be chaungid and turnyd in viij panes, and at every Scouchon a boutrasse fynysht with finial. 1450in Hist. Dunelm. Script. tres App. 325 Pro factura..j sol skownsiom. 1473Churchw. Acc. St. Mich. Cornhill, For sconcheons and a felet for the same pewes. 1487–8Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 651 Et sol. Will. Mayson pro dolacione..36 skonchones ad 3d., 9s.; 17 jawmys ad 4d., 5s. 8d. 1490in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 559/4, 4 skochyns [for library window {at}]/8. 1789in Macgill Old Ross-sh. (1909) 195, I mean to build a house..to be built of what is called solid mud except the corners, door, and window skimshions, Lintols and soles [etc.]. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §929 Soffits, Ingoings, Scuncheon Linings, &c... The scuncheons (the beveled parts, splays, or elbows, of the inside of a window opening, where the shutters are placed) of the two parlour windows are to have framed linings to correspond with the shutters. 1844H. Stephens Book of Farm §60 I. 144 The corners of its [sc. the door's] scuncheon should be rounded off. Ibid. §214 I. 200 Scontions of all voids [i.e. spaces for doors and windows] are..measured over and above the rubble-work. Ibid. §2847 III. 1007 When the dyke has a scuncheon for its end, a large boulder..should be chosen as the foundation-stone. 1885Blacklaws Quarry Price List, Scuntions, 20 in. by 11 in. by 7 in. each 7d.
†b. attrib. in scuncheon anglers, scuncheon-crest, of obscure meaning.
1372Ely Sacrist Roll in Willis Arch. Nomencl. 38 In 8 scochoncrestes magnis empt'. 8s. pro pet. 12d. 1429–30in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 445 Pro xvij ped' et di de sqwynchuncrest vs. 1443Ibid. I. 386, xij coynes iiij skouchons-anglers and viij Square Anglers to the..legement table. |