stouping-brod

1) Possibly a nail used in setting up stoops or posts, but the one example noted occurs in a context of daubing, walling and roofing, so it may be for ‘stouring brod’.

1443 ‘1,555 nails called stoupyng broddis’, Bedale.

places Bedale
dates 1443

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