1 gen 1657 anni - strickle

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A wooden tool used to whet or sharpen a scythe. 1620 <i>three sithe strickles worth 9d</i>, Helmsley (NRQS3/108); 1642 <i>The tooles that Mowers are to have with them are Sythe, shafte, and strickle, hammer to pitte the strickle with to make it keepe sande, sand-bagge, and grease horne</i>, Elmswell (DW34); 1657 <i>a scith and shaft and strickle</i>, East Rounton (NRQS5/257). In the Craven Glossary (1828) it was ‘a piece of wood besmeared with grease and strewed with sand’. Alternatively it could mean the smooth straight piece of wood used to strike off the surplus grain from the top of a corn-measure: 1423 <i>pro ij buss’ cum j strekill et j peke</i>, York (SS45/80); 1642 <i>When wee goe to take up Corne for the mill, the first thinge wee doe is to looke out poakes, then the bushell and strickle</i>, Elmswell (DW108).

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