1 gen 1627 anni - womb

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The belly piece of a fur skin (OED). In the Act of 1558 it was said ‘Two pieces called Wombs shall be cut off of every hide to be converted to sole–leather, commonly called Backs. Both the backs and womb shall be brought to fairs and markets to be sold’ (SAL). The term is on record much earlier: 1377-8 <i>liberantur iij cor(ei) ad opus sub celerarii cum v paribus wames per conversum vs xxijd ob,</i> Bolton Priory (YRS154/569); <i>c.</i>1425 <i>Item for a dosan wames, drissyng coloryng and shafyng als it is a bouen sayd he shall haf ijd</i> (SS120/65); 1465 <i>21 dos’ et 9 wombis coriorum vitulinorum</i>, Hull (YRS144/90); 1582 <i>for the potinge, pinsing and righting of wambes and rigges</i> [backs] <i>ijs,</i> York (YRS119/68); 1627 ‘part of any hide from which the sole leather is cut called the <i>woombe, necke, shanke, pole or cheeke</i>’, Beverley (YRS84/79).

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