Obs. Forms: 4 sowdel-; 4, 6 soud(e)let, 6 sodelet(t, sodlett. [? f. OF. souder to solder.] A saddle-bar for a window.
1332. in J. T. Smith, Antiq. Westminster (1807), 196. [Nine small bars of iron, called] soudlets, [to hold the glass in the said windows].
1339–40. Ely Sacr. Rolls (1907), II. 96. Item in Sowdelibus faciendis per eundem de vj peciis ferri. Ibid., II. 97. In diuersis sowdelibus fact… pro fenestris superioris istoriæ Noui Operis. Ibid. Barris et sowdelibus reparand.
1532–3. in E. Law, Hist. Hampton Court Pal. (1885), 349. For 295 sodlettes servyng the syde wyndows. Ibid., 350. 40 sodletts for the harnessyng of the Greatt Wyndow.
attrib. 1533. MS. Rawl. D. 776 fol. 175. For xxj Fott off sodlett barres.
1536. MS. Rawl. D. 780 fol. 59. xxxijti fote of sodelett barrs spent by the glasyers.
