muntin Building.
(ˈmʌntɪn)
Forms: 4 mountayne, 7 mountan, moontan, 7–9 munton, 8 montan, 9 muntin, -ing.
[By-form of montant with t dropped.]
A central vertical piece between two panels, the side pieces being called stiles.
| [1330–2 in J. T. Smith Antiq. Westminster (1807) 207 Six pieces of timber, called mountaynes, ready prepared for the said chapel.] 1611 Cotgr., Montant, a Mountan; an vpright beame, or post in building. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. xiv. (Roxb.) 15/2 The Rome well wanscoted about either with Moontan and panells, or carved as the old fashion was. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 28 Stiles, Rails, and Montans are of different breadths. 1774 W. Gostling Walk Canterb. xxv. 101 note, For example, by Gothic windows I mean those where the lights are narrow, and divided by muntons of stone. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 228 Muntins or Montants.—The vertical pieces of the frame of a door between the stiles. 1850 Parker's Gloss. Archit. s.v., English joiners apply the term muntin to the intermediate upright bars of framing, and call the outside uprights styles. |