▪ I. came
(keɪm)
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 iii. ix. 384/2 Leads [Glasier's]..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, etc. |
▪ II. came
(keɪm)
pa. tense of come v.; Sc. f. comb.