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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of shaped wood designed to fit across a person's back and shoulders, with a chain hanging from each end onto which a PAIL could be attached and thus carried with less strain. OED earliest date of use: … to clothiers in towns like Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds. There the cloths were fulled, frizzed and perhaps …
Survey of London
… surviving relic of the great houses which in the medival and Renaissance periods bordered the Strand between the Temple and Charing Cross. a York House, to which the York Water Gate … was originally the town house of the Bishops of Norwich and, like its easterly neighbour, Durham House, it fronted …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Zaffre - Zoobditty match Zaffre Also known as saffer and saffre, this processed BLUE mineral, that is roasted … COBALT ore, or impure cobalt arsenate. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the centre of production in Europe … until the ARSENIC came off in a white smoke that settled and was collected in a long wooden tunnel. The zaffre was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the county of the species recorded in the subjoined list, and add a few species to it. Two or three species not yet … lagurus, Glomeris marginata, Iulus sabulosus, I. pilosus and I. teutonicus. Setting aside the last-named, about which … unquestionably Lamyctes fulvicornis, Polydesmus inconstans and Blaniulus fuscus. Yet the scarcity or apparent absence of …