larding-pins

Updated: May 3, 2025

Then, all round the walls upon shelves, and even under the tables, were iron pots, earthenware pans, dishes, pails, various kinds of tin utensils, a perfect battery of deep copper saucepans, and swelling funnels, racks of knives and choppers, rows of larding-pins and needles a perfect world of greasy things.

Émile Zola - The Fat and the Thin

They had no chance of conquering, or even of surviving; but they were the best, the most intrepid, and the strongest. The people from Carthage began to throw spits, larding-pins and hammers, over the heads of the Numidians; those whom consuls had feared died beneath sticks hurled by women; the Punic populace was exterminating the Mercenaries. The latter had taken refuge on the top of the hill.

Gustave Flaubert - Salammbo