grope

1) An iron implement found in a wood-worker’s inventory, used for ‘groping’, probably for grooving or cutting grooves.

1327 j hachet et j wymbell cum meliori meo grophirne, York. The verb occurs later: 1419 Et Johanni Grene, joynor, pro joynacione tabularum pro libraria et plancione et groping de waynscott, per annum 17s 8d, York.

spellings grope-iron
places York
dates 1327 1419

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