linternn.
Obsolete (regional in later use).
= lintel n. 1.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > lintel
overdooreOE
lintela1425
soil1519
lintern1533
hance1534
linterel1548
hance-head1618
cap1688
transom-stone1770
lintel-piece1842
pare1897
soldier arch1963
1533 Repar. Tower in J. Bayley Hist. Tower London (1821) i. App. 22 It'm for ij. lyntons made for the ij. wyndowes.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. M4 I read this inscription in a peece of stone.., directly ouer the linterne of the dore.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iii. §4. 253 When euery one of the Hebrewes had..slaine a Lambe,..and with the bloud thereof coloured the poste and linterne of the dores.
1864 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Cornwall 17 Mar. Lintern, a lintel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1533- throw off his or her bias
- throw off the scent
- throw off the yoke
- throw on
- throw one's cassock to the nettles
- throw one's energy into
- throw one's etc
- throw one's etc into
- throw one's face
- throw one's fastball
- throw one's feet
- throw one's frock to the nettles
- throw one's hat in the ring
- throw one's hat into the ring
- throw one's heart into
- throw one's leg over
- throw one's money about
- throw one's mouth
- throw one's rattle out of the cot
- throw one's rattle out of the pram
- throw one's soul into
- ticket-shop
- ticket-snatching
- ticket-snipper
- ticket-splitter