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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1606-1619
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Hand-hammer, n. [OE. hand-hamer.] — 1374 Coldingham Priory p. lxxvi.]
[In domo fabri … ij forhamers, ij handhammers 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xix. 36.
Like Iacobs, whose wealth was the winning of his owne hand-hammers 1619 Edinburgh Testaments L. 213 b.
Ane foirhammer, … tua hand hammeris
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