1 gen 1639 anni - nail tool

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Evidently a specialist tool used by smiths and nail-makers although its precise function remains uncertain. The word is first recorded in co. Durham in 1338 (OED) and frequently in Yorkshire from the sixteenth century: 1543 <i>Item v. nalle towlys, vjd</i>, Ripley (SS26/43); 1584 <i>all my naile tooles and all my hammers, tonges, bellowes</i>, Knaresborough (SS104/145); 1592 <i>Item 2 neale toules a pair of tongues a cuttinge iron</i>, South Cave (Kaner184); 1597 <i>3 neile towles, 4 punches and a round neile towle</i>, South Cave (Kaner194); 1639 <i>one paire of great bellow in my shop, one stiddie, one great naile toole</i>, Knaresborough (SS110/160).

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