1 gen 1638 anni - sword-sliper

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A sword sharpener (OED) but also the craftsman who made sword sheaths. 1479 <i>Et solutum ... Robson swerdsliper pro j vagina de novo facta magno gladio maioris</i>, York (SS192/165); 1596 <i>arte of smithes, armourers, cutlers, swordslipers and hardewayremen</i>, Beverley (YRS84/69); 1638 <i>Jonathan Worrall, Halifax, swordsliper</i> (YRS4/63). By-names provide the earliest evidence: 1305 <i>Peter le Swerdslipere</i>, Northallerton (YRS127/53); 1316 ‘William the <i>Swerdslyper</i>’, Wakefield (YRS78/110); 1379 <i>Johannes Swerdslyper</i>, Rotherham (PTWR); 1425 ‘Thomas<i> Swordsliper</i> holds seven acres of land’, Leeds (Th24/20).

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