Also 7 caum. [app. the same as CALM2 q.v.] A small grooved bar of lead used for framing the glass in lattice windows: chiefly in pl.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. ix. 384/2. Leads thus cast in these [Glasier’s] Moulds are termed Caums.
1731. Bailey, vol. II., Cames, the small slender rods of cast lead of which they make their milled lead for joining the panes or quarrels of glass.
1734. Builder’s Dict., s.v. Cames, Their Lead being cast into slender Rods, of twelve or fourteen Inches in Length, are called Cames; and sometimes they call each of those Rods a Came.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 677. Cames … were formerly called ‘lattices,’ and hence leaded windows were termed lattice windows.
1875. Gwilt, Archit., § 2228. The glazier’s vice is for preparing the leaden slips called cames with grooves, &c.
