1 gen 1697 anni - gavelock

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An iron crowbar or lever, noted regularly from the fourteenth century. 1396-7 <i>et in j gawelok de ferro emp. 2s</i>, Ripon (SS81/124); 1425 <i>gavelockes, mattokes and wegges, </i>Scarborough (SZ2/332); 1544 <i>for ... amending of gavelocks</i>, Bridlington (YRS80/67); 1581 <i>one gavellocke, 3 spades</i>, Anston (G-A); 1697 <i>the bayliffe answered they would break open the doore and having a gaivelack ready Baines broke open the doore</i>, Bentham (QS1/37/1). It was used for heavy labour in a variety of situations.

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