1 gen 1690 anni - hack-hammer

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This was probably a short-handled tool with an iron cutting edge which could be reversed and used as a hammer. Stone-masons used hack-hammers which were adze-like tools (OED) and they are described in cutlers’ records as adze-shaped, with a curved face. It is a frequent word in the wills of metal founders: 1493 <i>ij hak hammers,</i> York (SS53/88); 1512 <i>Item vj hakehamerz xd</i>, York (SS79/35); 1516 <i>Item iij hake hamars iiijd</i>, York (SS79/35,80). In more recent times it was a tool used for trueing up gritstone wheels: George Harrison was a Sheffield cutler who specialised in finishing knives to a high standard, and when he died in 1690 his tools included a <i>hackhamer </i>(IH). In 1402 a York metal worker who was described as a ‘potter’ bequeathed to one of his servants <i>j hakkynghamer, ij files et porcionem de spindels</i> (SS4/250).

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