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severunda

severunda [AN severunde, OF severonde], severo [ME severonne < OF severonde; ? cf. et. chevero], (arch.) sort of structural feature or element occurring at top of wall, eave, (also perh. spec.) tabling, gable coping. c1160 in curia est unus tassus de frumento habens ‥ x pedes in alitudine usque ad ~undas Dom. S. Paul. 130; c1250 et faciet ~undam in muro in parco, unam perticam pro j opere (DCChich. Liber P f. 31v) Cust. Suss I; 1261 venit ad predictam domum, et cum non invenisset ingressum ad hostium predicte domus, quod clausum invenit, ipse ~undas predicte domus extraxit et per illuc intravit SelCWW 131; vicinus ejus debet facere stillicidium sub ~unda domus Leg. Ant. Lond. 207 (cf. MGL I 255); 1281 fenestre ‥ sub dicta ceverunda tam barris ferreis quam vitro bene claudentur Cart. Osney I 415; c1293 [29 feet] de ~onibus (Ac. Merton) Building in Eng. 107.

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