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▪ I. clocher, n.1|ˈkləʊʃə(r)|
Forms: α. 4– clocher, 5 clochere, -erre, 6–8 clochier; β. 5 clokerre, 7 clockier, 9 clockyer; γ. 6 clochiarde, 7–9 clochard.
[a. F. clocher, clochier (12th c. in Littré), in ONF. clockier, cloquier, corresp. to med.L. cloc(c)ārium, f. cloc(c)a, cloque, cloche, bell. Occas. having the suffix -er corrupted to -ard.]
A bell-tower or campanile; a belfry.[c1250Merton Coll. Rec. 1760 Messuagium subtus clocherium de Basinggestok.] α1354Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 92 Emendantis diversos defectus in clocher. 1391Ibid. III. 106 Carpentarii operantis infra clocher australe. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 201 The greet clocher up for to bere. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxiii. 68 On euery toure a clocher of fyne golde. 1547in Blomfield Hist. Norfolk II. 155 For ryngyng the clocher bells. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 192 The Steeple or Clochier thereof. 1880J. L'Estrange in Norfolk Antiq. Misc. II. 149 A detached bell-tower or Clocher.
βc1440Promp. Parv. 8 Clokerre or belfray. a1641Spelman Hist. & Fate Sacril. (mod. ed.) 259 A clockier or bell-house..with four very great bells in it. 1872Ellacombe Bells Ch. ix. 305 A separate campanile called the clockyer.
γ1598Stow Surv. xxxv. (1603) 332 A great and high Clochier..In place of this Clochiarde of olde times. 1657Howell Londinop. 378 A strong Clochard..where there were three great Bells. 1869J. Raven Ch. Bells Cambr. (1881) 25 The five bells which formerly inhabited the clochard of King's College.
▪ II. † ˈclocher, n.2 Obs.
[app. a var. of closer1.]
An apartment, room.
a1400–50Alexander 5289 Ledis him forthire, In-to a clochere with a kay. c1400Destr. Troy 13501 The cave & the clocher, þere þe kyng lay. |