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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… it became less common after 1700, possibly because using a KNIFE and a FORK for eating made its function for wiping the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… it are squared to such a nicety, that the thin edge of a knife cannot be insinuated through, or between the joints …
Old and New London
… pulp when first moulded; the fourth is left smooth by the knife, which eventually cuts the two notes in twain. This …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by his uncle and father and 'offered the same land by my knife upon the high altar of St. Pancras'. 345 In 1535 the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… book in which he is writing, holding in his left hand the knife used by the scribes for erasing purposes; this is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Marlborough Common, 816 moved to new buildings in Chopping Knife Lane in 1966. 817 The schools were amalgamated as St. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… James Keill, M.D. (d. 1719), who 'opened by the surgeon's knife a path for the physician's skill'; Edmund Bateman (d. …