Search
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 1780s allowing the export of various simple TOOLs used by Saddlers included the clam. Clams or clems were described in … dated 1886 as 'wooden instruments with which shoemakers or saddlers clip their leather to hold it fast'. OED earliest …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III
… of nails, 'bokeles' of iron and hides silvered by the saddlers' craft in divers bags, price 40 l. 3 s. 4 d., of the …