jan 1, 1663 - mullion

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A vertical bar which divides the lights in a window. 1538 ‘the chapel wants ... a mullion of stone’, Knaresborough (YAJ30/224); 1663 <i> Hen: Lawson pro stones for the mullions, 8s </i>, Ripon (YRS118/111). The earlier history of this word is complicated but it is considered to have developed by metathesis from ‘muniall’ which had the same meaning: 1379-80 <i> Et in diversis monyeles lapid. esand et figand. cum plumbo in le Westgavell, </i>Ripon (SS81/102).

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