jan 1, 1638 - butter

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From the French <i>boutoir</i>, an instrument used in various trades for punching or boring holes, found especially in farriers’ workshops where it served to pare horses’ hooves. 1423 <i>j incude magna … de ferro … et de vjd receptis pro j botour</i>, York (SS45/81); 1592 <i>a peire of tongues … a buttrye 3 punches</i>, South Cave (Kaner184). In 1638 there were <i>2 buttresses </i>in the workshop of the Elmswell blacksmith (DW237).

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