altered ff. LINTEL; cf. prec. Obs. exc. dial.
1533. Repar. Tower, in Bayley, Tower Lond. (1821), I. App. 22. It’m for ij. lyntons made for the ij. wyndowes.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 133. I read this inscription in a peece of stone … directly over the linterne of the dore.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. (1634), 212. When every one of the Hebrewes had slaine a Lambe,… and with the bloud thereof coloured the poste and linterne of the doores.
1864. T. Q. Couch, E. Cornw. Gloss., in Jrnl. Roy. Inst. Cornw., I. 17. Lintern, a lintel.
