1 gen 1602 anni - slay

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A word of Old English origin, on record from before the Norman Conquest. A local glossary has the following definition: ‘an instrument used in weaving to keep the threads straight. It also acts as a support to the shuttle as it runs, and, on being pulled to the piece, it drives the threads of the woof closer together’. In most references it is linked with ‘heald’: 1498 <i>unum bastard-lome cum iiij heyldes et slayes pro panno lato</i>, Beverley (SS53/137); 1559 <i>I give to Thomas Dawtre one wolane slea and one pair of heldes</i>, Wombwell (FAClvi); 1602 <i>to William Simpson my new lynnen loame with all the slayes saving thre or fower of the smallest,</i> Winsley (SS104/241).

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