Chapter 9, Item 107a
Glazier's terms of Art
Glasiers Terms of Art.
A Load is 2 Kribbs
A Krib is 100 or 150 Foot of cut Glass
A Case of Glass, is 16 Bunches of broad Glass.
An Halfe Case, is 8 Bunches.
A Bunch of Glass, is 3 Tables.
A Table, is a broad peece of Glass neere a yard, some more square. It is also called a Tablet.
A Quarry of Glasse, is a square peece (of any size from twenties to twelves as they call them) set Arras like with the point upright.
A Square, is a peece set with the flat side upwards.
A Halfe quarry, is that part cut perpendicularly from point to point. these are called Halves.
End Halves, are the over thwart tops and bottoms of Quarrys
A Snip, is the upper halfe, and sometymes a quarter or lesse of a Quarry, Three Snips goes for a quarry.
Fretten, is waste cut, and broken glasse fit for noe worke. Castaway glasse.
A Pointed Quarry, is one much higher then broad
Cleeveing, is the cuting of the Tables of glasse into long peeces the length of the Glasse.
Flinting, or Cutting, is the cutting of the Clift glass into Squares or Quarryes.
Casting, is the melting of Lead and poureing it into the Moulds to make Caums, Calves, or Bands.
Caums, or Calves, are the new cast Leads before they be put to the Vice.
Bands, or Tyes, are those Leads as hold the Panes to the Window rods
-- is the cuting away the rough Skirts or Selvages from the sides of the Calves, or Bands.
Drawing, is the runing of the lead through the Vice
Stretching, is to pull the drawn lead streight out.
Glazeing, is the working of flat glass into any kinde Panes, or window lights.
Cloreing, Setting, or Leading, is the making of the cut glass up into Panes.
Joynt, is the crossing of the lead at every corner of the glass in a Pane.
Sodering, is tying the Joynts fast together with hot melted Pewter being first Rossined.
Simoning, is the rubing of the Pane all over with burnt Allablaster & oyle mixt, that the Ioynts may keep out raine and other kinds of foule weather.
Pane of Glass, is (be it great or little) as much Clored glass as is set between two window Stages.
Querke, is a nook shoten Pane: or any pane whose sides and top run out of a square form.
Window, are several Panes set together in a range, with Stages of Wood or Stone set between them.
Casements, are Panes of glass set in frames of wood or Iron, and hung on hooks or hinges to open & shut.
Pining of Casements, is the Sodering the Panes fast in the frames.
New Leading, is seting old decayed Panes of glass with new turned Lead.
Stoping, is the puting of whole Quarries in a Pane in the place of broken ones.
Rubbers, are old Panes or Quarries made cleane.
Knots, are the Soder Ioynts of an old glass Pane, cut from the other Lead.
Cope Lead, Knot Lead, or Knoping lead, is the old lead remaineing after the Knots are cut away.
Heart of the Lead, is the midle of it after the turning thereof in the Vice.
The Cover, the Sides of the Turned Lead.
Seting up, is the nayling or fastning the Panes in their places where they should be.
Smelting, or Refineing, is drawing of Lead from its Dross, and Ashes, &c.
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