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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… is used in the Dictionary Archive with reference to particular objects, for example 'a yard-wide GOWN' where a … spinning process was geared to produce a yarn fit for a particular purpose. From the long list of terms found in the … of BUTTER or that of the yoke of an egg. It was used in particular to describe those alloys of COPPER and zinc (BRASS …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to a single meadow or shot. Some lots descended with particular farms and can be traced from the 17th century, …