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Lincoln Wills
… King's clerk Cob-irons, cobb yrons. The irons on which a spit turns, irons hung on the bars of a kitchen-range to support the spit. Also said sometimes to=Andirons or fire-dogs ( N.E.D.). …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be a SMOKE JACK. It was presumably used with a HANGING SPIT. In the only reference in the Dictionary Archive it was … Fissell (1999), Gloag (1952, revised 1991). Hanging spit [hinging spitt] A SPIT designed to hang vertically, presumably from a HANGING …
Henley: Town Buildings
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… to fund his building of a tower [light house] on the spit to preserve shipping from danger. Reply is given that …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… the subjects of the Prince of Castile. She has told him to spit out all his venom and do his worst, for she is safe …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… pot, a pewter platter, a little kettle, a gridiron, and spit. No bedding nor linen, but a tablecloth. In the …