1 Jan 1516 Jahr - clencher

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The OED has ‘clincher’ (1874) and ‘clench hammers’ (<i>c</i>.1850) for the tool which turned the pointed end of a driven nail, so as to make it more secure. The following much earlier reference to an iron clencher is in a list which includes large and small iron ‘malls’: 1423 <i>ij malleis parvis cum j clencher de ferro</i>, York (SS45/81). The specialist hammers probably had one flat end and they are listed in the inventories of metal founders: 1493 <i>j clense hammer</i>, York (SS53/88); 1512 <i>Item iiij clynch hamers</i>; 1516 <i>Item v cleynche hamers</i>, York (SS79/35,80). A similar word, where the reference may be to the nails used, occurs in a goldsmith’s inventory: 1490 <i>De v small lez clenches iiijd</i>, York (SS53/58).

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