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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Houghton. Grinding lathe A LATHE adapted for grinding. Randle Home has an illustration of 'the Needle makers …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Sq., London, cm and u (1793). [D] See Thomas Heath. Heath, Randle, Welsh (or Welch) Row, Nantwich, Cheshire, cm …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… HINGE that has the shape of an H when open. According to Randle Holme, 'this sort of Hinge is used to such kind of … (mid-period). References: Cox (1966, pb 1989). Hair comb Randle Holme explained that it was 'called an Haire combe … and poking, and the AXE, for felling and cutting. Randle Holme illustrated some fairly elaborate versions as …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… termed Middle Rake Hay, now paid by Sir S. R. Glynne; and Randle Bingley in 1698 left a similar charge of 5 on his farm …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… trades had their own tools, like the LATHING HAMMER. Randle Holme is a particularly helpful source on the may … if known: AXE hammer - probably similar to what Randle Holme called 'a Slaters, or a Plasterers Hatchet. This … similar uses previously Hollowing hammer - according to Randle Holme 'This is so termed by Tyn men, though the both …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… hand-saw; handsaw; hande sawe; hand sawe] According to Randle Holme, the 'Hand-Saw, or ... Boardsaw; is used by … the TEASELS were being set in. Not found in the OED or Randle Holme Sources: Inventories (mid-period), Inventories …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Coach Harnish Brushes' [Inventories (1747)]. However, Randle Holme used 'Harnish' and 'Harness' in close proximity, … of IRON [Inventories (1674)], as appears to be the case in Randle Holme's illustration [Holme (2000)], but on the harrow …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 'about ten handfulls' tied up into a bunch. According to Randle Holme, twelve of these bunches would make a KIRTLE, … as a shearman, processing the raw CLOTH. Although Randle Holme did not use the term, his illustration of a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… hed naile] A type of NAIL, presumably one with a head. Randle Holme included in his list of nails 'with heads', … Archive is for a piece of ARMOUR for the head; a helmet. Randle Holme went to some lengths to describe a headpiece … On the other hand, this may have been the form of pump Randle Holme described as one 'made of Cane or Latin, which …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… did not normally include casting among their skills. Randle Holme did not include such an IMPLEMENT among his list … at the same time have nothing identifiable as equivalent. Randle Holme, described it as a 'smith's tool'. It was 'a …