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Old and New London
… a long piece of paper that unrolls itself by machinery in tape-like fashion beneath a revolving wheel, one half of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Derby railroad 1 mile from the village. A manufactory of tape employs about ninety hands. Courts leet and baron for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… miles of Fort La Prairie. Our sign was a piece of white tape or linen or bark, upon a lock of hair; and the word was …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… laces, scyths, nailes and other iron ware, needles, pins, tape and many other sorts. But cannot give an exact account …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… stockings, beef, pork, flour, rum, sugar, nails, pins, tape and thread etc., retailed out of his own shop, and at a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 2003)]. Like CLOVE WATER it acquired the cant name of RED TAPE [OED, Tape]. In the Dictionary Archive it is almost invariably …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… string The string with which an APRON is tied on, made of TAPE or INKLE or similar tough band. They were sold … shops. OED earliest date of use: 1542 Found made of INKLE, TAPE Sources: Diaries. Aproning [apurninge; aproninge; …
Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors
… the dozen, 3 l. 6 s. Item paid for 9 dozen and 5 yards of tape, at 16 d. the dozen, 12 s. 8 d. Item paid for 30 ouncs …
The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents
… see Printer's ink Inkhorns, 2 Inkle, 18. A kind of linen tape, or the thread or yarn from which it is made. Ireos …
Survey of London
… shown in Plate 14b were mostly formed with adhesive tape as a precautionary measure against splintered glass in …