† String-hearth. World English Historical Dictionary

† String-hearth. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. † String-hearth

Obs. In 5 stryngherth. [? f. STRING sb.] The hearth or furnace at which iron was heated for its second working.

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1409.  Durham Acc. Roll, in Eng. Hist. Rev., XIV. 520. Soluta pro i trowe empto pro le stryngherth. Ibid., 527. Et uxori ejusdem laboranti ad le stryngherth in fabricatione dictorum xii blomes, xiid.

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