bills-of-charge

Updated: May 11, 2025

Then we passed by an infinite number of little pimping wine-presses all full of vintage-mongers, who were picking, examining, and raking the grapes with some instruments called bills-of-charge. Finally we came into a hall downstairs, where we saw an overgrown cursed mangy cur with a pair of heads, a wolf's belly, and claws like the devil of hell.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5