Hist. Also 5 lormerie, 6 lormary. [a. OF. lormerie, f. lormier LORIMER.] The small ironware produced by lorimers. Also, a place where such ironwork was made or sold.
[1260. Liber Custumarum (Rolls), I. 78. Ces sount les purveaunces qe les forgeours de la lormerie de Londres ount purveu.]
1419. Liber Albus (Rolls), I. 231. Lormerie.
1583. Rates Custom ho., D ij. Lormary the c. contayning v. xx. xii.l.
1725. Hearne, R. Brunne, Gloss. (1810), II. 613/2. In the Parish of North St. Michael’s in Oxford … was an Alley, or Lane, call’d The Lormery, it being the Place where such sort of Iron works were sold for all Oxford.
[1899. Cal. Let. Bk. A. Lond., 32. The sum of £24 for saddles and lormery.]
