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Definition of Sheathers
1. sheather [n] - See also: sheather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheathers
Literary usage of Sheathers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London by John Carpenter, Henry Thomas Riley (1861)
"H 118 Ordinance as between the Cutlers and the sheathers . . I 71 Ordinance as
between the Cutlers and the Bladesmiths I 71 Ordinance of the ..."
2. Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by George Unwin (1904)
"between three different crafts, the blacksmiths who made the ; blade, the cutlers
who fitted the handle, and the sheathers who supplied the sheath ..."
3. The Cutlery Trades: An Historical Essay in the Economics of Small-scale by Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd (1913)
"We do not know when the blade- smiths and sheathers had become differentiated
and separately organized, but we know that a similar triple division of the ..."
4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"... Middle Age is considered, and the jealousy lest one craft should encroach on
the domain of another. We hear of bladesmiths, sheathers, buckle-makers, ..."
5. Readings in Industrial Society: A Study in the Structure and Functioning of by Leon Carroll Marshall (1918)
"... (Formerly) The House of St. Leonard—(Now) Masons; Cutlers, Bladesmiths,
sheathers, Sealers, ..."
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