Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 586
^r^ -n^. … We suspect certain blacksmiths toolshave been made to do duty as flip ironsor toddy sticks. We are sure that thegophering iron, thrust into a hollowholder, is often called a flip iron. Itwas used in England, and perhaps here,to heat the gophering iron on which ruftiesor flounces were smoothed.…
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