Thursday, March 17, 2011

Tingers and Untingers

Someone who raises and fastens the body of a cart after its contents have been dumped.

“There were also eight tingers, whose special office was to lift up the carts immediately after they were unloaden, and to make fast their tackle. There attended also men called untingers, to loose and undo the tackle before the unloading.”

Abraham Fleming, continuing Raphael Holinshed, The firste volume of the chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande (1587).

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