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Survey of London
… valuable whalebone, which was used to make knife handles, sieves, brushes, ornamental window-blinds, trellises and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… that the inhabitants have taken them out with baskets and sieves, and the lake is said to be described in old records …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… the tithe arising upon the land of Thomas de Laufet, three sieves ( cribrum), 32s.; Roll at Levens. Hugh Ward and John … Midelton and others for tithe of Heaholme, [Egholme] three sieves, four windels, 37s. 4d; ib. 1374 Thomas Twenge held at …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… that it may have been used for processing meal - hence the SIEVEs [Inventories (1666)]. OED earliest date of use: 1571 …
Middlesex county records
… worth twenty-six shillings and eightpence, a pair of linen sieves worth six shillings and eightpence, and five linen …