1 gen 1673 anni - back

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In connection with tanning the OED defines this as ‘the thickest and best-tanned hide’. That meaning seems implicit in the first example quoted there, from the Act of 1535: ‘or any leather called backs or sole leather’. Yorkshire references date from an earlier period: <i>c</i>.1423 <i>what man as wyrkys a dakyr of backs</i>, York (SS120/65); 1541 <i>ij bakkes and ij dyntles xiijs,</i> Knaresborough (SS104/35); 1673 <i>In the Tan Yard, 39 uper leather hides, 18 backs and halfe att 15s pece, one with another, £43 2 6,</i> Selby (YRS47/33). The back is actually the main portion of the hide and a Latin reference in the ordinances of the cordwainers of York provides earlier evidence of its use: 1417 <i>si invenerint aliquod corium nigrum (sive sit integra pellis vel dorsum) non tannatum,</i> York (SS120/189).

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