▪ I. † lare1 Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. larus.]
? A seagull.
| 1388 Wyclif Lev. xi. 16 A strucioun, and nyȝt crowe, a lare, and an hauke bi his kinde. |
▪ II. † lare2 Obs.
[Of obscure origin: ? connected with lathe n.3]
A turner's lathe.
| 1611 Cotgr., Tournoir, a Turne, turning wheele, or Turners wheele, called a Lathe or Lare. 1684 R. Waller Nat. Exper. 75 To take the Lump of Ice out whole, we made a small crease round it, where by putting it again in the Lare, it might be cut in two in the midst. Ibid. 77. |
▪ III. lare
see lair, layer, lore.