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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Presumably a black haft was made of EBONY or some other WOOD stained to imitate it. Not found in the OED Found … modern sense, that is a core of BLACK LEAD protected by a WOOD surround. The making of them seems to have been a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (late). References: Rees (1819-20, 1972 ed.). Black wood There is more than one possibility for black wood. The OED cites several TIMBER trees that have attracted … named, was only born in 1736. It affords an extremely hard wood suitable for FURNITURE, carving etc. [Synge (1951, new …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 1872, which defined a blood stick as 'A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with LEAD which was used when treating …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and lighted with gas: the houses, many of which are of wood, and of mean appearance, are inhabited chiefly by …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the industries were hand-loom weaving of cotton, wood-bobbin making, lime burning and stone quarrying. 14 At … as 1861. The portion taken down in 1807 was entirely of wood and plaster, but had been refaced in the 18th century … have been the chantry priest's residence. It contains some wood carving: 'Robertus Taylor cantorista hanc fabricam fieri …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Lane to the north-west where one is dated 1739. Blackford wood and East wood were named in 1637, both on the rising ground to the south of the village; a field called Great wood close was arable by 1775. 10 There were two open arable …
Survey of London
… No. 74 have been rendered in stucco. In the latter house a wood shopfront has been inserted with end pilasters … demolished with the exception of the ground floors. The wood porch with Doric columns and pediment of No. 174 … 251 The house was destroyed in 19401. The fine brass and wood sign (Plate 86) was sold in 1931 and is now in the …
Old and New London
… storeys each have arched windows. An octagon turret of wood rises above the parapet in two stages, the lower forming …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… consisting of 11 grassland closes and of Blackland wood and lying mainly south of Blackland Farm, and the … by the National Trust, was used for grazing. 80 Blackland wood, 18 a., 81 was standing in 1728, 82 probably long …