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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… STUFF, DAFFYS ELIXIR, LONDON TREACLE, MITHRIDATE, SNAIL WATER, STOUGHTONS DROPS, VENICE TREACLE Found in units …
Survey of London
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Inventories (late). References: Lloyd (1895). Snail [snayl; snait; snaile] A term with a variety of … but the first inspired by the shape of the common garden snail shell. The context should make clear the meaning in … because the chenille was curled round into the shape of a snail shell. OED earliest date of use in this sense: 1741 A …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parish boundary. 62 A spring, perhaps the eponymous Snail well, in the north-west of the parish is the source of the river Snail which flows on a north-easterly course for 1.5 km.; its … the north and north-west. 65 The areas between the river Snail and its tributaries were subject to flooding in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fen between the village and the western tributary of the Snail had c. 50 a. in total, and Snailwell fen divided into … 1299 four fishponds were dug on the west side of the river Snail 140 m. to the north of the spring. The 4.5-m. wide moat … in 1086 were pre sumably watermills powered by the Snail. 20 In 1299 Philip de Patmer unsuccessfully sought to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… waters. 62 The river, effectively the lower portion of the Snail running north from Fordham, from at least the 17th …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… trout have spawned freely. The river is now again full of snail and crayfish, and the trout feeding on them are strong …
Old and New London
… a dry, shrivelled nut in a large shell. Like the proud snail in the fable, that took possession of the lobster-shell …
A History of the County of Oxford
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… the same; the said prince calling his said brother a snail, to whom nothing was wanting but two horns, which by …
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