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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… sides and roughly-cut bressummer with fixing-marks for a spit engine. The main staircase, rising in three short …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… caps. Curner. Beater of cloth; a clothworker. Probably a spit-maker, possibly a spurner, as the French word broche means both a spit and a spur. Ironmonger. Or "trossel," a package. Tiler. …