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noffus

noffus [cf. LL nafus] 1 coffin. si quis corpus in terra vel ~o vel petra vel pyramide vel structura qualibet positum ‥ effodere ‥ presumpserit (Leg. Hen. 83.5) GAS 600. 2 roof-tree. querebant ‥ grossissimam quercum atque longissimam de qua facerent ad mensuram spinetam ecclesie, quam nophum populariter apellare solemus, quod viz. ex more cavatum poneretur in tecti culmine, cujus partem utramque tegeret et duobus junctum pinnaculis totam fabricam non incongrue in summitate uniret (G. Burton V. Modw. 41) MS BL Add. 57533 f. 107ra.

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